external commands get formatted tables

[estokes]

Describe the bug

consider the pipeline,

ps | each {$"/local/ps/($in.name)|u64|($in.pid)"} | ^cat

One would expect cat to receive lines in the form

/local/ps/{name-of-process}|u64|{pid-of-process}

Instead, nushell formats the table as if it was going to show it to a human, and then sends it on to cat. E.G.

/home/eric/proj/demoscene/views〉ps | each {$"/local/ps/($in.name)|u64|($in.pid)"} | ^head
╭─────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│   0 │ /local/ps//usr/lib/systemd/systemd|u64|1                             │
│   1 │ /local/ps/kthreadd|u64|2                                             │
│   2 │ /local/ps/rcu_gp|u64|3                                               │
│   3 │ /local/ps/rcu_par_gp|u64|4                                           │
│   4 │ /local/ps/netns|u64|5                                                │
│   5 │ /local/ps/kworker/0:0H-events_highpri|u64|7                          │
│   6 │ /local/ps/mm_percpu_wq|u64|9                                         │
│   7 │ /local/ps/rcu_tasks_kthread|u64|10                                   │
│   8 │ /local/ps/rcu_tasks_rude_kthread|u64|11                              │

This is pretty much entirely useless for interacting with any external command I can think of.

How to reproduce

1. pipe anything non trivial to an external command

Expected behavior

For a simple list of strings I expect each string to be sent to the external command as 1 line. To be honest, given that primitive, and the already ample string manipulation functions in nushell, you should be able to do most anything.

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Changed Packages

Package Name	Package Path	Changeset Bump	Current Version
@backstage/plugin-search	plugins/search	none	v1.4.6-next.3

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[freben]

Oh sorry - could you make a changeset (yarn changeset) on a patch level so that this gets shipped as well?

[MeenuyD]

Can you please explain more what should i change

[freben]

Run the command yarn changeset as described above and follow the instructions, and commit the created file with this PR.

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