The nice thing about the http
command in Nushell is that you can interact with HTTP endpoints without the need to install any external tools. You can use several subcommands like get
, post
, put
, delete
and patch
. Each of these commands has the options to specify request headers. You can use the option --headers
or the short version -H
followed by a list of header keys and values.
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The http
command in Nushell can be used to interact with HTTP endpoints. You can post data to an endpoint using the post
subcommand. If you want to post JSON data than you can simply use a record data structure and use the argument --content-type application/json
(or the shorthand -t application/json
). Nushell will automatically convert the record data structure to JSON and use it as the body of the HTTP request.
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Nushell has a built-in command to invoke HTTP requests: http
. You don’t need an external tool like curl
or httpie
to make HTTP requests. There a lot of options to use with the http
command. One of them is the --full
or shorter -f
option to return a table with extra details of the HTTP request and response. The request and response headers, the body and status are returned in the table. You can easily get information from the table with all the default selection options for a table structure.
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Nushell has a lot of commands to work with strings. The str kebab-case
command can be used to convert a string to kebab case. Kebab-case is a string that contains only lowercase letters and words are separated by hyphens.
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