paul-d-ray

Diffent ways in Nushell to get File Count by Year

I had a need to get a count of files in one of my folders by Year the file was saved.

Using a few lines in Nushell I came up with a way to do this, and with help from the Nushell Discord channel, we came up with a few more.

Uniq and Count flag

xan-completions.nu screenshot

Nushell extrenal completions for xan using xan-completions.nu

Xan subcommands flags

Most of the subcommands have flags that show from the exterenal completions.

xan view flags screenshot

fd-completions.nu screenshot

Nushell extrenal completions for fd using fd-completions.nu

scoop-completions.nu screenshot Nushell extrenal completions for scoop using scoop-completions.nu

Nushell Page

This is a good site to see example code for Nushell.

Rosetta Code Nushell

Example Task solved by Nushell

Letter Frequency

Tasks for any language

Ping a list of hosts

Tested under Windows (I used Windows). Should work under Unix like systems (not tested).

# PR 2025-05-20 23:33:44
# Manual with some help from Grok 3 for Unix style ping
# from discord about ping
# https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/615253963645911060/threads/1374058672120135813

Nushell code to get a file size distribution

# 20250412_2141
# https://rosettacode.org/wiki/File_size_distribution
# File Size Distribution


 [d:/work d:/drivers d:/images ] | each { ls ($"($in)/**/*" | into glob) |
  each { |it|

RG and PDF files

To seach inside pdf files, use rga

RGA

If you want to search inside PDFs (and many other file types like Office documents, archives, e-books, etc.), you can use ripgrep-all (rga), which is a wrapper around ripgrep that adds support for these formats.

rga is available for Windows and can be installed using package managers like Chocolatey or Scoop.

	# Completions

	source ($nu.data-dir \| path join 'completions' \| path join 'fd-completions.nu')

	source ($nu.data-dir \| path join 'completions' \| path join 'rg-completions.nu')

	source ($nu.data-dir \| path join 'completions' \| path join 'scoop-completions.nu')

	source ($nu.data-dir \| path join 'completions' \| path join 'winget-completions.nu')

	# PR 20240926
	# This was done for Nushell 98.0

	source .oh-my-posh.nu

	oh-my-posh init nu --config C:\Users\Paul_Ray\AppData\Local\Programs\oh-my-posh\themes\gmay.omp_PR.json

	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
	# Load modules
	use g:\work\nu\mathfunctions.nu