Re: [dev] Re: Suckless sh [Was: Re: New utility]

From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57_AT_fastmail.fm>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:38:48 +0100

On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:17:23 +0200
Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57_AT_fastmail.fm> writes:
>
> > It's redirection and the behaviour of cp & mv when the last arg is a
> > dir that bother me, in rc.
>
> What has the behavior of cp and mv to do with the shell used?

Shell language in general, as a tool to use. It's not just cp & mv,
there are other things.

>
> rc's redirection syntax is remarkably clean and powerful, but it
> shouldn't be very hard to hack "2>&1" support in there if you don't want
> to use ">[2=1]".

Actually I find rc's way less annoying than bash's but there's a sort
of inconsistancy between > and | which might be there for a good reason
but which keeps surprising me.
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