From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) In-Reply-To: References: <86fwpz55nj.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <257867.782e4d7b.wsc0.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> <5ddd9deccbea5e8556dfc0c228b63311@ladd.quanstro.net> <86vcythf8h.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <14A00924-1B1B-4169-B520-80A11D3F098B@fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ethan Grammatikidis Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 21:54:16 +0100 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin? Topicbox-Message-UUID: cb34a8dc-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 5 Apr 2011, at 8:56 pm, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Me also. Yet another solution is not to use echo in the first place. >> This won't work on p9p, but on plan 9 if you want to echo $foo where >> $foo(1) might possibly be '-n', you can cat /env/foo instead. > > please google the famous bikeshed post. That was an easy comment off the top of my head. I am sorry I didn't read your post properly before posting. I get rather caught up in replying to people who want to add features when there's already a hundred workarounds because I thought I wasn't very good at solving problems. I'm very much not good enough to deal with my offline (not computer-related) problems which everyone around me wants to make out are trivial.