Today, version 1.0.0 adds structured pipelines: a mechanism to exchange (almost) arbitrary objects via POSIX pipes, and transform them via external programs, shell builtins or Scheme code.

Example:

  dir /proc | where name -starts k | sort-by modified

  ┌───────────┬────┬───────────────┬────────┐
  │   name    │type│     size      │modified│
  ├───────────┼────┼───────────────┼────────┤
  │kcore      │file│140737471590400│09:32:44│
  │kmsg       │file│              0│09:32:49│
  │kallsyms   │file│              0│09:32:50│
  │kpageflags │file│              0│10:42:53│
  │keys       │file│              0│10:42:53│
  │kpagecount │file│              0│10:42:53│
  │key-users  │file│              0│10:42:53│
  │kpagecgroup│file│              0│10:42:53│
  └───────────┴────┴───────────────┴────────┘

  ip -j route | select dst dev prefsrc | to json1

  [{"dst":"default","dev":"eth0"},
  {"dst":"192.168.0.0/24","dev":"eth0","prefsrc":"192.168.0.2"}]

This allows arbitrary transformations at each pipeline step: filtering, choosing a subset of the fields, sorting with user-specified criteria, etc. And each step can be an executable program, a shell builtin or Scheme code.

If you know nushell, they will feel familiar as they are inspired by it - the implementation is fully independent, though.