Nushell Updates - August 7, 2021

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# This week in Nushell #103

## Nushell

- andrasio added [flexible dropping of rows (by desired row number)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3917)
- lily-mara fixed [some long-standing Rustyline issues](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3916)
- baoyachi [fixed time format without timezone bug. enhance,optimize suggest upgrade.](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3914)
- elferherrera added a [Describe command](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3907)
- hedonihilist added a way to [count the size of the directories when calculating the size in DirInfo](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3902)
- efx [documented engine-p porting](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3868)

## Documentation

- hedonihilist [added doc for `filesize_metric` config](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/187)
- jafriyie1 [added config path argument to first paragraph of configuration.md file](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/186)
- dywedir created [2021-08-03-nushell_0_35.md: Fix typo data -> date](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/184)

## Nu_Scripts

- Yethal [updated filesize.nu](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/88), and [Create filesize.nu](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/87)

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Title: Nushell Updates - August 7, 2021

Summary

This week's Nushell updates include new features such as flexible row dropping, a 'Describe' command, and directory size counting in DirInfo. Bug fixes address time format issues and Rustyline problems. Documentation improvements include updates to file size metric configuration and configuration path arguments. Additionally, the filesize.nu script has been updated and created.