rakitzis/rc
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rc shell -- independent re-implementation for Unix of the Plan 9 shell (from circa 1992)
10 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2014-03-01 · latest 2026-03-17
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…An implementation is also available if one wants to look at how it could be done: https://github.com/rakitzis/rc
comment by tame3902 · 2026-03-17 · in Building a Shell -
…whatever other shell there is out there. You want functions? For loops? Lists? They got them. [1] https://github.com/rakitzis/rc
comment by gatane · 2025-05-05 · in Elvish – Scripting language and interactive shell -
…saner) than bash. At least you can read the mapage of it[1]. [1] https://www.mankier.com/1/rc [2] https://github.com/rakitzis/rc
comment by gatane · 2024-02-14 · in Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell -
…daily shell for almost a decade now. There are also native UNIX ports available, usually based on https://github.com/rakitzis/rc . I enjoy the simple syntax and I wouldn't call it dormant by any means. It kept simple on purpose and doesn't…
comment by mkovach · 2021-02-13 · in Alternative Shells -
Byron's rc. https://github.com/rakitzis/rc Sane quoting eliminates and a lack of recursive expansion make ssh a breeze. Pattern matching, backquote status, and pipe status simplification are all incredibly easy to get right. C-like syntax…
comment by codemac · 2021-01-29 · in A Shell Language in Lisp -
…to mean "really fucking quote", and $* working as every user would expect.. makes it a joy. [0]: https://github.com/rakitzis/rc Secondly, I use rc in emacs shell-mode which poorly emulates a terminal, so advanced completion and all that…
comment by codemac · 2017-11-01 · in Closh – Bash-like shell based on Clojure -
…similar to the situation for dynamic vs lexical scope. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/rc.html https://github.com/rakitzis/rc
comment by spelufo · 2016-07-17 · in Ask HN: How should the CLI be designed today? -
…My life has gotten so much better since I gave up on other shells. http://tobold.org/article/rc http://github.com/rakitzis/rc
comment by codemac · 2015-12-15 · in Bash Academy -
https://github.com/rakitzis/rc is the official location of byron's rc, and is now actively maintained by Toby Goodwin. Please don't reinvent the wheel - rc compiles down to a correct nice little binary without a bug I've run into in the…
comment by codemac · 2015-06-23 · in Es: a shell with higher-order functions