NuShell Installation

Installation

On windows:

winget install nushell

Run nu to enter NuShell.

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For more installation, see: Installing Nu

Integrates with VSCode

Add new profile in settings.json.

{
    "terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
        "NuShell": {
            "path": "C:\\Program Files\\nu\\bin\\nu.exe",
            "overrideName": true
        }
    },
}

To use NuShell as default integrated shell, value should coherent to profile name.

{
    "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "NuShell"
}

Integrates with Windows Terminal

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Windows Terminal will automatically register a profile for NuShell

Configuration

Unlike bash, nu separates environment variables and start up scripts into two files: env.nu and config.nu.