tfinally got these working - plan9port - [fork] Plan 9 from user space
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 (DIR) commit 47e0a2aa3c6e1ca2b8cd236b934f729fb721baba
 (DIR) parent 63853aa06999bf26dd9590b864989f4f3008e694
 (HTM) Author: rsc <devnull@localhost>
       Date:   Sun, 17 Oct 2004 04:02:55 +0000
       
       finally got these working
       
       Diffstat:
         A bin/"                               |      29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
         A bin/""                              |      10 ++++++++++
       
       2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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 (DIR) diff --git a/bin/" b/bin/"
       t@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
       +#!/usr/local/plan9/bin/rc
       +
       +fn text {
       +        if(~ $winid [0-9]*)
       +                9p read acme/$winid/body
       +        if not if(~ $text9term unix!*)
       +                dial -e $text9term </dev/null
       +        if not
       +                status=''
       +}
       +
       +PROMPT='[^         ]*[%;$#][         ]+'
       +
       +fn cmds {
       +        text | 9grep '^'$PROMPT'[^"]' | sed 's/^/        /'
       +}
       +
       +switch($#*) {
       +case 0
       +        cmds | tail -1
       +case *
       +        cmds | 9grep '^        '$PROMPT^$"* | {echo; cat} |
       +                pr -t -n | sort -nr | sort -u +1 | sort -n |
       +                9sed 's/^ *[0-9]+        //' | grep .
       +}
       +
       +# the silly {echo; cat} gets around pr printing "empty file" when
       +# presented with no input.
       +
 (DIR) diff --git a/bin/"" b/bin/""
       t@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
       +#!/usr/local/plan9/bin/rc
       +
       +PROMPT='[^         ]*[%;$#][         ]+'
       +
       +" $* | tail -1 | tee >{wc -l >/tmp/qq.$pid} | tee /dev/stderr | 9sed 's/^        '$PROMPT'//' | rc
       +if(~ `{cat /tmp/qq.$pid} 0){
       +        echo no such command found
       +        exit notfound
       +}
       +exit 0