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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:31:14 +0000
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> 	syscall -c 'echo http://www.foo.baz >[1=3]; cat <[0=3]' open /mnt/webcookies/http 2

it's this kind of scenario that was one of the reasons
i put braced-blocks-as-values into the inferno shell.

then you can write the above as:

	syscall -c {
		echo http://www.foo.baz >[1=3]; cat <[0=3]
	} open /mnt/webcookies/http 2

and the shell still does your syntax checking for you.
it's not a difficult thing to do.