From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-id: From: Pietro Gagliardi To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: <33924385c4fbc4bc8369dcefd0fb0695@quanstro.net> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:22:06 -0500 References: <33924385c4fbc4bc8369dcefd0fb0695@quanstro.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] nedmail quirk Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3e9935b6-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 All the programs that accept ! as a command do this: % ed file !echo hello hello ! It tells the user that execution has finished. On Nov 11, 2008, at 11:07 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Nov 11, 2008, at 10:40 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> >>> does anyone remember why !, | and || echo follow their >>> output with a "!\n"? would anyone miss this behavior? >>> >>> - erik >>> >>> >> >> Could you give an example? > > 1: !echo true > true > ! > 1: 1|wc > 1929 2070 146786 > ! > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkkavF4ACgkQuv7AVNQDs+z0kACgkAwZ/J20lZJlJvuDr02BfOWL /fAAoI7y+G9I2u3FH+3b04/kAYbTiUj/ =BSnh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----