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Date: Wed,  1 Apr 2009 14:41:28 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] what features would you like in a shell?
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I also use to put a sleep 1 in there.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:01 PM, matt <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk> wrote:
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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
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> that doesn't permit a clean exit, this does :
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> fn ff {firefox || ff} ; ff;
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