One of the other comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37335912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37335912) mentions that it's possible to use `nu`

One of the other comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37335912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37335912) mentions that it's possible to use `nu` for its (5) solutions without switching to it as a shell: nu --commands 'ls | where size > 1MiB' So it seems possible to use nu and its coreutils equivalents / filters as an “island” having structured output and easy parsing etc, without switching one's shell.