On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 15:29 +0000, noagbodjivictor wrote:
>
> so I'm writing to get your opinions. maybe there are thing that people
> implement themselves but want included in the shell itself? or just
> something they want implemented?
>
> thanks a lot in advance for your help.
>
A few features I'd like to see in a shell (though they may already
exist):
Simple redirection into jobs, i.e. some_bin & echo "data" >%1, though
really I don't see why job control should be part of the shell as
opposed to its own program, i.e. $id=`{job start some_bin}; echo "data"
| job $id
Open looped pipelines. This one is kind of weird (and full of potential
problems) a pipeline the which reads its input from its output AND
stdin, and outputs to its input AND stdout. But I think this one can
actually be done with cat, tee, and FIFO's.
