shells/rc 1.7.4_5 DragonFly
Unix incarnation of the plan9 shell
- System
- DragonFly
- Repository
- DPorts
- Maintainer
- [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
- License
- ZLIB
- Categories
- plan9, shells
- Package size
- 155.2 KiB, 1213.8 KiB installed
Description
This is a reimplementation for Unix, by Byron Rakitzis, of the Plan 9 shell. The original rc was designed and implemented by Tom Duff at Bell Labs. It has a small feature set similar to a traditional Bourne shell, but with a much cleaner and simpler syntax. Among other things, this makes rc much better than Bourne-compatible shells at handling filenames which contain spaces. Thus, writing rc scripts is less error-prone than writing sh scripts.
In the other systems
Install
Binary package:
pkg install rc
From DPorts:
cd /usr/dports/shells/rc && make install clean
Dependencies
No port depends on this one.