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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 development
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> > ('&', '&&', '||', if, '|', 'and '`{}') with something general
> > enough to replace mk, you'd be on to something.
>
> i did a mash-inspired version of mk as an inferno shell module once.
> it required no new syntax (although it could be confused by
> files named ":"...)

what you did was very cool, but iirc this was in addition
to, not replacing the standard && || ... bits.  one
could build pipelines and specify command order in one
unified way, no?

- erik