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From: 9p-st@imu.li (Tristan Plumb)
Date: Mon,  4 Apr 2011 03:54:44 -0400
Subject: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?
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(right, sorry erik for the double)

> i hate to be pedantic,
By all means, please be pedantic, I was flat wrong.

>ifs is not a list; it is a set of characters like strpbrk(2).
And it matches [$ifs]+ which is the other piece I always forget.

> 	for(line in `{ifs=$nl cat}){...}
That is exactly what I was saying, thank you. That's what I get for
spending the last few days writing in php, sigh.


> as per plan 9 tradition, the first non-option terminates
> option processing.  lindon's echon is not required.  giving
> echo -n as its first argument works fine.

What I thought smiley was referring to is when the first argument is
inteded to output -n, but doesn't. What I gave obviously puts an extra
space in (I guess I was a bit fuzzy earlier), echo -n $it^$nl works if
$it is not a list. I've never seen this be a problem in practice myself.

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