The Return of the InfluxDB V1 Shell

The community has spoken, and the demand for an interactive shell in InfluxDB V2 has been met, with improvements made to the new CLI. To access the interactive shell, users need to establish a connection config and map buckets to databases, before using the command "influx v1 shell". The interactive shell features autocompletion, navigation through previous commands, and a new table view for displaying query data. Users can also customize the timestamp format, data output formats, and even write metrics to InfluxDB manually. However, there are some caveats, including limitations on database creation from within the shell, and the need to create buckets and map them to databases. The feature is expected to be released soon, with a repo available for building the CLI from source.