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From: byron@archone.tamu.edu (Byron Rakitzis)
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Subject: rc & quoting [was Re: Globbing ]
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Date: 1 Mar 91 17:33:43 GMT
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In article <1991Feb28.225426.24072@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) writ
es:
>
> My general observation is that quoting is a hard problem, and that the
>fewer things you have to quote and in the fewer places, the better. For
>all its worts, the Unix shell (and especially rc, the Plan 9/V10 shell)
>have simple globbing quoting that you only have to do rarely.
>

I would just like to "remind" the net that I am presently putting the
finishing touches on my own implementation of "rc", the att plan 9 shell.

You can fetch a copy from archone.tamu.edu, by anonymous ftp, in pub/rc.
rc is about to be dignified with a version number, 0.9, but it needs users
to shake the bugs out. When I am sure it is relatively stable, I will release
version 1.0. (Lest I scare anyone off, I should mention that rc has been my
login shell for the last two months with nary a core dump.)

By the way, quoting in rc is accomplished as follows: surround the word
to be quoted in single quotes. That's it. There is no backslash quoting
and there is no double-quote quoting. It *does* make life a lot simpler.