nu-plugin-bexpand

Bash-style brace expansion in nushell.

Format and Functionality

The format specification and functionality is fully explained in the bexpand crate, which implements the parser and iterator types independent of nushell.

Usage

```nushell

cargo install nu-plugin-bexpand ...

register ~/.cargo/bin/nupluginbexpand

help str bexpand Bash-style brace expansion

Usage:

str bexpand

Flags: -h, --help - Display the help message for this command

Signatures: | str bexpand -> list list | str bexpand -> list

Examples: Get a list of standard nushell config items

'~/config/nushell/{env,config,plugin}.nu' | str bexpand

'a{b,c,d{🥰..🥴..2}e}f' | str bexpand ╭───┬────────╮ │ 0 │ abf │ │ 1 │ acf │ │ 2 │ ad🥰ef │ │ 3 │ ad🥲ef │ │ 4 │ ad🥴ef │ ╰───┴────────╯

'a{1..3}c{4..6..2}b' | str bexpand ╭───┬───────╮ │ 0 │ a1c4b │ │ 1 │ a1c6b │ │ 2 │ a2c4b │ │ 3 │ a2c6b │ │ 4 │ a3c4b │ │ 5 │ a3c6b │ ╰───┴───────╯

[a{🤐..🤒}b c{🧛..🦜..31}d e{15..-23..8}f] | str bexpand ╭────┬───────╮ │ 0 │ a🤐b │ │ 1 │ a🤑b │ │ 2 │ a🤒b │ │ 3 │ c🧛d │ │ 4 │ c🦼d │ │ 5 │ c🦝d │ │ 6 │ e15f │ │ 7 │ e7f │ │ 8 │ e-1f │ │ 9 │ e-9f │ │ 10 │ e-17f │ ╰────┴───────╯

'{0..🧿..129300}' | str bexpand ╭───┬────╮ │ 0 │ 0 │ │ 1 │ 🥄 │ ╰───┴────╯

['success{a,b,c}test' 'fail{test'] | str bexpand Error: × Brace expression failed to parse ╭─[entry #13:1:1] 1 │ ['success{a,b,c}test' 'fail{test'] | str bexpand · ─────┬───── · ╰── 0: at line 1, in Eof: fail{test ^

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"{\u{D7FF}..\u{E000}}" | str bexpand Error: × Expression failed to generate ╭─[entry #15:1:1] 1 │ "{\u{D7FF}..\u{E000}}" | str bexpand · ─────┬───── · ╰── converted integer out of range for char ╰──── ```