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>	window echo good night, linuks
>	window 'echo good morning, plan 9 | tr a-z A-Z; rc'

what about:

window rc -c 'echo $#* $*; sleep 10' 4 '5 6' 7

that neeeds to print: 3 4 5 6 7

just passing rc code to window is a shitty interface. you
need proper argument passing as well. basically, it has to
work like cpu/rcpu and ssh where you can just prefix any
valid command with window and it will run that command
inside the window and thats it and pass the arguments
without any mangeling. $"cmd is just wrong.

the manpage also says [cmd args] and not [rccode]

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cinap