Nixar
Dev tools
shell utilities
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
5 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 25 critical, out of 40 comments about the project. Thread score -0.46.
Idea: 1 for, 10 againstDocs: 0 for, 5 againstPerformance: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting exercise, looks nice, could be a gateway to Unix userland
From 3 comments
Looks really nice from first glance, would need to give it a try for a week or so to see how it really fits in my workflow. >In daily life I need work linux shell and got the…
insanebits on HNI agree. I could see this being, for lack of a better phrase, a gateway drug for some to the full power of the *NIX userland.
jamescun on HNits really handy, great work
lambo_fanboy on HN
Objections
Duplicates existing Unix tools and aliases
From 3 comments
Maybe I'm just old hat, but all the examples given I immediately thought of their *NIX equivalent. This doesn't appear to do anything above and beyond what our current tooling…
jamescun on HNMost of these could be written as bash aliases, so not really a great win for node...
rmsaksida on HNgrep cat df du ... not that complicated come on..
bechampion on HN
Requires installing Node.js
From 2 comments
This is node.js? no. Golang/C/C++ I can handle, but I'm NOT installing node.js just for this.
mickgardner on HNExactly my thought. Apart from the fact that it doesn't add anything to my existent Tool-chain at the moment.
enibundo on HN
Slower than standard shell tools
From 1 comment
In same directory time ls -al | awk '{print $1,$3}' real 0m0.008s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.004s time ls -al | col 1 3 real 0m1.690s user 0m1.143s sys 0m0.173s While I appreciate the…
rolandukor on HN
Command names differ from Unix, e.g. ls becomes fs
From 2 comments
Looks really nice from first glance, would need to give it a try for a week or so to see how it really fits in my workflow. >In daily life I need work linux shell and got the…
insanebits on HNYou probably don't want that. It's a namespacing issue. If you call some new command ls and it has a different API that is a serious affordance issue.
escherize on HN
Buggy output and broken docs site
From 2 comments
Seems a bit buggy. I just tried `show` on a plist file and got ``` <dict> <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key> <string>English</string>…
interpol_p on HNwhat is 'turn' ; their docs site is broken
easytiger on HN
Requests
Implement as bash aliases or scripts
From 2 comments
I would really be interested in the Nixar commands beeing implemented as normal bash alias commands.
kluck on HNIt would be far more reasonable if "nixar" was a set of aliases or just a bunch of bash scripts ... something like ``` alias count='wc -l' ``` or ``` echo "#bin/sh\nsed \"1,…
drinchev on HN
Keep names close to Unix commands
From 1 comment
Looks really nice from first glance, would need to give it a try for a week or so to see how it really fits in my workflow. >In daily life I need work linux shell and got the…
insanebits on HN
Clearer license information
From 1 comment
Tried to play my favourite game of "find the license" but couldn't. Anyone else found it?
reitanqild on HN
Questions
Why build this instead of using existing tools
From 2 comments
I don not understand this. My only question is why? This seems to be one of these tools the author thinks is really good, but in the end nobody will use a tool like this.
seivui on HNLooks really nice from first glance, would need to give it a try for a week or so to see how it really fits in my workflow. >In daily life I need work linux shell and got the…
insanebits on HN
What does the turn command do
From 1 comment
what is 'turn' ; their docs site is broken
easytiger on HN
Alternatives named
awk, grep, sort, head, tail and other standard Unix tools
From 2 comments
Nice exercise. But for utility - I have been doing the same things 15 years ago with the standard shell tools: awk, grep, sort, tail, head, cat, tac. Nothing wrong with old tech.
ddalex on HNgrep cat df du ... not that complicated come on..
bechampion on HN
sc spreadsheet transpose and rs
From 2 comments
sc [1], the venerable text mode spreadsheet, has `pt' (transpose) command. And yes, it's a visual program, in that you operate on grid of cells. [1]…
dexen on HNrs(1)'s transpose
james2vegas on HN
Fish shell
From 1 comment
Have you tried fish? I really like it, both to script and to use interactively. Some examples: http://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html#tut_loops…
pnt12 on HN