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Subject: Re: [9fans] what features would you like in a shell?
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> If somebody wants to do such a thing (which all we agree is a bad
> idea) you need no new features in the shell, eg:
> while() firefox
>
that doesn't permit a clean exit, this does :

fn ff {firefox || ff} ; ff;