* [9fans] it's the small things ...
@ 2013-10-10 18:10 erik quanstrom
2013-10-11 16:24 ` BurnZeZ
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: erik quanstrom @ 2013-10-10 18:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
i feel rather dumb for not thing of this until now.
it's been a constant annoyance that cd in scripts screws
up plumbing. here's a fairly fool-proof solution.
unfortunately if you like your acme tag jumping like
a jack rabbit with its tail on fire, you may be bored
during compiles. :-)
fn cd {flag i && builtin cd $* && awd}
- erik
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread* Re: [9fans] it's the small things ... 2013-10-10 18:10 [9fans] it's the small things erik quanstrom @ 2013-10-11 16:24 ` BurnZeZ 2013-10-11 17:01 ` Matthew Veety 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: BurnZeZ @ 2013-10-11 16:24 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 258 bytes --] It's funny how small tricks like that can make things so much easier. Here's a script to compare your $home/lib/profile with those in sources. I'm always finding cool tricks doing this. It writes to /tmp/lsr, so I hope it's nothing important. ◔ ◡ ◔ [-- Attachment #2: cmpprof --] [-- Type: text/plain, Size: 205 bytes --] #!/bin/rc -e rfork n 9fs sources cd /n/sources if(! test -s /tmp/lsr) fcp lsr /tmp/lsr acme $home/lib/profile <{awk '{print $1}' /tmp/lsr | grep '^\./contrib.*/profile$' | sed 's/^\./\/n\/sources/'} ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] it's the small things ... 2013-10-11 16:24 ` BurnZeZ @ 2013-10-11 17:01 ` Matthew Veety 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Matthew Veety @ 2013-10-11 17:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs That's my favorite thing about Plan 9. It is simple and lets you do little clever things to make your life better. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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