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I tried in the REPL and I was surprised to see no output of "hallo" in the terminal. Given that
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This is Nu's multi-line command syntax which allows for calling commands and wrapping their arguments across multiple lines. Your example is exactly as if you wrote If you want a pipeline to only print "hallo" if the assertion is true, split them up on separate lines, or separate them with a semicolon: > assert (4 == 4); "hallo" | print
hallo
> assert (4 != 4); "hallo" | print
Error: nu::shell::error
× Assertion failed.
╭─[repl_entry #15:1:8]
1 │ assert (4 != 4); "hallo" | print
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· ╰── It is not true.
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I see! Yes, that makes total sense. Shoudl have thought of this myself. Thanks heaps though. |
This is Nu's multi-line command syntax which allows for calling commands and wrapping their arguments across multiple lines. Your example is exactly as if you wrote
assert (4 == 4) "hallo" | print, which outputs nothing since"hallo"is being passed as a second argument toassertand is ignored.If you want a pipeline to only print "hallo" if the assertion is true, split them up on separate lines, or separate them with a semicolon: