From b822e13f1221f5891c1149d1e7f97e3d43b290d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Herrera Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 00:08:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add documentation for tags command --- docs/commands/tags.md | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/commands/tags.md diff --git a/docs/commands/tags.md b/docs/commands/tags.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2c80cc19cf --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/commands/tags.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +# tags + +The tags commands allows users to access the metadata of the previous value in +the pipeline. This command may be run on multiple values of input as well. + +As of writing this, the only metadata returned includes: + +- `span`: the start and end indices of the previous value's substring location +- `anchor`: the source where data was loaded from; this may not appear if the + previous pipeline value didn't actually have a source (like trying to `open` a + dir, or running `ls` on a dir) + +## Examples + +```shell +> open README.md | tags +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + span │ anchor +────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────── + [table: 1 row] │ /Users/danielh/Projects/github/nushell/README.md +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +``` + +```shell +> open README.md | tags | get span +━━━━━━━┯━━━━━ + start │ end +───────┼───── + 5 │ 14 +━━━━━━━┷━━━━━ +``` + +```shell +> ls | tags | first 3 | get span +━━━┯━━━━━━━┯━━━━━ + # │ start │ end +───┼───────┼───── + 0 │ 0 │ 2 + 1 │ 0 │ 2 + 2 │ 0 │ 2 +━━━┷━━━━━━━┷━━━━━ +``` + +## Reference + +More useful information on the `tags` command can be found by referencing [The +Nu Book's entry on Metadata](https://book.nushell.sh/en/metadata)