From: mattmobile@proweb.co.uk
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to move to rc from sh/bash
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 08:57:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47AD6AF3.80205@proweb.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b954b2060802090041x1ce119b1tc47e904f2d0992ba@mail.gmail.com>
I started to list my favourite features (procedures, splitting, pattern
matching, case) of rc, but I was just replicating the man page.
I like rc because I can use it and understand scripts I haven't written,
it is surprise free.
I've also recently started making more use of signals.
I spawn firefox to grab it's output with inferno via vnc but sometimes
the page never finishes loading so I have to kill it something like this :
fn sigalrm {
kill_firefox_sleep_and_screengrab
}
sleep 200 && kill -ALRM $pid
firefox $url &
screengrab_when_appropriate &
wait
kill -ALRM $pid
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-09 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-09 7:53 Hongzheng Wang
2008-02-09 8:01 ` mattmobile
2008-02-09 8:41 ` Hongzheng Wang
2008-02-09 8:57 ` mattmobile [this message]
2008-02-09 9:00 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-09 9:21 ` Hongzheng Wang
2008-02-09 10:11 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-02-09 10:27 ` Lluís Batlle
2008-02-09 15:06 ` Uriel
2008-02-09 17:54 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-02-09 21:59 ` geoff
2008-02-09 13:00 ` Anthony Sorace
2008-02-10 16:59 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-02-10 17:16 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-10 17:47 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-10 18:12 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-11 15:04 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-11 23:03 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-11 23:25 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-20 15:04 ` maht
2008-02-20 15:08 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-02-20 15:24 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-20 15:55 ` maht
2008-02-11 23:59 ` Uriel
2008-02-12 11:57 ` Martin Neubauer
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