[9fans] it's the small things ...

[9fans] it's the small things ...

[erik quanstrom]

i feel rather dumb for not thing of this until now.
it's been a constant annoyance that cd in scripts screws
up plumbing.  here's a fairly fool-proof solution.

unfortunately if you like your acme tag jumping like
a jack rabbit with its tail on fire, you may be bored
during compiles.  :-)

	fn cd {flag i && builtin cd $* && awd}

- erik

Re: [9fans] it's the small things ...

[BurnZeZ]

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It's funny how small tricks like that can make things so much easier.
Here's a script to compare your $home/lib/profile with those in
sources.  I'm always finding cool tricks doing this.
It writes to /tmp/lsr, so I hope it's nothing important. ◔ ◡ ◔

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#!/bin/rc -e
rfork n
9fs sources
cd /n/sources
if(! test -s /tmp/lsr)
	fcp lsr /tmp/lsr
acme $home/lib/profile <{awk '{print $1}' /tmp/lsr | grep '^\./contrib.*/profile$' | sed 's/^\./\/n\/sources/'}

Re: [9fans] it's the small things ...

[Matthew Veety]

That's my favorite thing about Plan 9. It is simple and lets you do little clever things to make your life better.