Nu Plugin Logfmt

Overview

The nu-plugin-logfmt is a Nushell plugin that allows conversion between logfmt (a key=value format used by some logging systems) and Nushell values. The plugin provides two commands:

1. from logfmt: Converts a logfmt string to a Nushell record.
2. to logfmt: Converts a Nushell record to a logfmt string.

Steps to Install

Ensure you have Go installed on your system. You can download it from here.

go install github.com/oderwat/nu_plugin_logfmt@latest
plugin add ~/go/bin/nu_plugin_logfmt
plugin use logfmt

or move it to your nushell plugins directory if you have one for that.

Usage

from logfmt Command

The from logfmt command converts a logfmt string to a Nushell record.

If the --typed flag is given. The function detect simple types.

Syntax:

<logfmt_string> | from logfmt [--typed]

Example:

'msg="Test message" level=info esc="» Say \"Hello\""' | from logfmt

Output:

{
  "level": "info",
  "msg": "Test message",
  "esc": "» Say \"Hello\""
}

to logfmt Command

The to logfmt command converts a Nushell record to a logfmt string.

Syntax:

<record> | to logfmt

Example:

{ "msg": "Hello World!", "Lang": { "Go": true, "Rust": false } } | to logfmt

Output:

msg="Hello World!" Lang.Go=true Lang.Rust=false

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.