From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 20:54:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14A00924-1B1B-4169-B520-80A11D3F098B@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin1oiWbkAhe0LxFV_G6R16NPi-r+Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 5 Apr 2011, at 9:58 am, yy wrote:
>
> I'm really impressed of how much we can talk about such a simple
> program as echo.
Me also. Yet another solution is not to use echo in the first place.
This won't work on p9p, but on plan 9 if you want to echo $foo where
$foo(1) might possibly be '-n', you can cat /env/foo instead.
If you have a var which is never going to contain _just_ '-n' alone,
then you can echo $"foo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-05 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-03 22:30 smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-04-03 23:22 ` pmarin
2011-04-03 23:41 ` Tristan Plumb
2011-04-04 2:02 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-04 2:53 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-04 7:54 ` Tristan Plumb
2011-04-04 9:26 ` roger peppe
2011-04-04 21:35 ` smiley
2011-04-04 21:46 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-04-04 22:03 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 8:57 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-04-04 22:00 ` Oleg Finkelshteyn
2011-04-04 22:33 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-04 23:01 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-04-05 8:58 ` yy
2011-04-05 19:54 ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2011-04-05 19:56 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 20:54 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-05 21:53 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-06 16:32 ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-06 16:43 ` roger peppe
2011-04-06 18:15 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-06 18:37 ` Yaroslav
2011-04-07 8:45 ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-06 18:18 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-07 8:45 ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-05 9:10 ` roger peppe
2011-04-05 15:47 ` ron minnich
2011-04-05 15:52 ` Jacob Todd
2011-04-05 15:57 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 16:04 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-04-05 17:17 ` ron minnich
2011-04-05 17:49 ` smiley
2011-04-05 18:01 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 19:50 ` Yaroslav
2011-04-06 15:27 ` smiley
2011-04-06 15:32 ` Jacob Todd
2011-04-07 1:26 ` [9fans] Busy mouse WAS: " smiley
2011-04-07 11:49 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-07 19:59 ` smiley
2011-04-07 20:19 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-09 12:26 ` smiley
2011-04-09 12:33 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 16:28 ` [9fans] " dexen deVries
2011-04-05 17:05 ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-03 23:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-04-04 3:01 ` erik quanstrom
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