byron@archone.tamu.edu (Byron Rakitzis) (03/02/91)
Archive-name: unix/shell/rc/1991-03-01 Archive-directory: archone.tamu.edu:/pub/rc/ [128.194.5.240] Original-posting-by: byron@archone.tamu.edu (Byron Rakitzis) Original-subject: rc & quoting [was Re: Globbing ] Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) 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.