[9fans] How to move to rc from sh/bash

* Uriel (uriel99@gmail.com) wrote:[color=blue]
> It is more likely that the information you want is not even in the man
> page, gnu man pages are severely crippled, and if you want the real
> documentation you have to travel to info hell which is likely to
> contain ten times as much (mis)information and be ten times harder to
> browse.
>
> And there you have the greatest innovation GNU has ever brought to
> unix, in gnu systems I rarely even bother checking the docs, because
> even random trial and error usually takes much less effort than
> navigating the fetid info swamp.
>
> uriel[/color]

Damn, I was just going to ignore that mess.

I call that a disadvantage, to me it looks like y is an argument to -x

If that's what getflags does, then I hope someone runs rm on it


"This is not LINUX! This is Plan 9. There are rules."

[color=blue]
> The only advantage to getflags is that we can say
>
> rcsrcipt -xy
>
> instead of
>
> rcscript -x -y
>
> which is why I use it in my 12 script.[/color]

you can't have multiple vars with the same verb, like the pull script
needs
% pull -c file0 -c file1
with getflags you loose file0

On Feb 20, 2008 12:04 PM, maht <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk> wrote:[color=blue]
> I call that a disadvantage, to me it looks like y is an argument to -x
>
> If that's what getflags does, then I hope someone runs rm on it
>
>
> "This is not LINUX! This is Plan 9. There are rules."
>[/color]



--
Federico G. Benavento

getflags brings rc scripts in line with the argument parsing rules
from the standard plan 9 c maros ARGBEGIN{}ARGEND.

- erik
[color=blue]
> I call that a disadvantage, to me it looks like y is an argument to -x
>
> If that's what getflags does, then I hope someone runs rm on it
>
>
> "This is not LINUX! This is Plan 9. There are rules."
>
>[color=green]
> > The only advantage to getflags is that we can say
> >
> > rcsrcipt -xy
> >
> > instead of
> >
> > rcscript -x -y[/color][/color]

well shoot me in the foot :>

I got frustrated with those in Limbo too

[color=blue]
> getflags brings rc scripts in line with the argument parsing rules
> from the standard plan 9 c maros ARGBEGIN{}ARGEND.
>
> - erik
>
>[color=green]
>> I call that a disadvantage, to me it looks like y is an argument to -x
>>
>> If that's what getflags does, then I hope someone runs rm on it
>>
>>
>> "This is not LINUX! This is Plan 9. There are rules."
>>
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>> The only advantage to getflags is that we can say
>>>
>>> rcsrcipt -xy
>>>
>>> instead of
>>>
>>> rcscript -x -y
>>>[/color][/color]
>
>[/color]