Re: [9fans] v8 shell

[Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:01:30PM +0000, rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
> > I agree with your conclusions, but I also like rc's use of \ for hiding
> > a new-line only, and rc's much simpler quoting rule - just one type of
> > quote ('), and double it for a literal quote.
>
> oh, i agree entirely - rc's syntax *is* much nicer, and features like:
>
> 	grep something /mnt/term/mail/fs/mbox/^(1 2 3 4)^/body
>
> not to mention:
>
> 	tar c . | tee >{wc -c} | @{cd somewhere; tar x}

  I myself praise rc as much as the next guy, but as far as
  "tee >{wc -c}" part goes you can do the same with bash
  nowadays:

        tee >(wc -c)

  that is.

Thanks,
Roman.