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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:50:39 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] make-shells that create a file for you
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On Thursday 30 of August 2012 15:36:36 Jason Catena wrote:
> >>> anyway, a meld of Rc shell and mk? crazy idea.
> >>
> >> Inferno (Vitanuova) released a "mash" a ways back, but apparently the
> >> sources were lost.  It was mind-bogglingly interesting!>
> > In case anyone's interested (like I was):
> > http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/1/mash.html
>
> I kept expecting to see the make-shell act proactively to create a
> file, if the shell encountered a reference to a file that did not
> exist in the filesystem, but for which it had a matching creation
> rule.  (...)

plumb(7), to some extent.


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dexen deVries