This may be spectacularly stupid, but . . .
It seems to me that the Plan 9 (or UNIX) way here, given pipes
and good text processing tools, is to think that there is absolutely
no need for me to write rc scripts the way that rc demands that
I write them as long as I have a (perhaps sed or awk based)
preprocessor. So, instead of actually writing
echo 1
echo 2
.
.
.
echo n
one might just write
echoon
1
2
.
.
.
n
echooff
and pass it through the preprocessor before it gets run by rc.
Is that nuts? It seems to me that, if you don't write a lot of long
here doc using scripts, you can just write the echos, but if you
do, it might be worthwhile to do something like that.
Just a mildly buzzed thought. Man, the Berkshire Brewing
Company makes some good beer. :-)
Greg
