Nushell Loop thru folders in a variable

Nushell_Loop_Folder_from_Variable.md

$nu variable

From the Help file about $NU

This is from Nushell 0.110.0 $nu The $nu constant is a record containing several useful values:

• default-config-dir: The directory where the configuration files are stored and read.
• config-path: The path of the main Nushell config file, normally config.nu in the config directory.
• env-path: The optional environment config file, normally env.nu in the config directory.
• history-path: The text or SQLite file storing the command history.
• loginshell-path: The optional config file which runs for login shells, normally login.nu in the config directory.
• plugin-path: The plugin registry file, normally plugin.msgpackz in the config directory.
• home-dir: The user's home directory which can be accessed using the shorthand ~.
• data-dir: The data directory for Nushell, which includes the ./vendor/autoload directories loaded at startup and other user data.
• cache-dir: A directory for non-essential (cached) data.
• vendor-autoload-dirs: A list of directories where third-party applications should install configuration files that will be auto-loaded during startup.
• user-autoload-dirs: A list of directories where the user may create additional configuration files which will be auto-loaded during startup.
• temp-dir: A path for temporary files that should be writeable by the user.
• pid: The PID of the currently running Nushell process.
• os-info: Information about the host operating system.
• startup-time: The amount of time (in duration) that it took for Nushell to start and process all configuration files.
• is-interactive: A boolean indicating whether Nushell was started as an interactive shell (true) or is running a script or command-string. For example:
• is-login: Indicates whether or not Nushell was started as a login shell.
• history-enabled: History may be disabled via nu --no-history, in which case this constant will be false.
• current-exe: The full path to the currently-running nu binary. Can be combined with path dirname (which is constant) to determine the directory where the binary is located.

Show all files in the $nu.vendor-autoload-dirs variable

• Note a folder listed may no exist.

Nushell code

 $nu.vendor-autoload-dirs
| par-each { |dir|
    {
        directory: ($dir | path expand),
        exists: ($dir | path exists),
        files: (
            try {
                ls -a $dir | get name | path basename
            } catch {
                []
            }
        )
    }
}

Ouptput

╭───┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬────────┬───────────────────────────╮
│ # │                         directory                         │ exists │           files           │
├───┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│ 0 │ C:\ProgramData\nushell\vendor\autoload                    │ false  │ [list 0 items]            │
│ 1 │ C:\Users\Paul_Ray\AppData\Roaming\nushell\vendor\autoload │ true   │ ╭───┬───────────────────╮ │
│   │                                                           │        │ │ 0 │ 20251010_1953.zip │ │
│   │                                                           │        │ │ 1 │ 20251020_1359.zip │ │
│   │                                                           │        │ │ 2 │ oh-my-posh.nu     │ │
│   │                                                           │        │ │ 3 │ versions          │ │
│   │                                                           │        │ ╰───┴───────────────────╯ │
╰───┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────┴───────────────────────────╯