rc - a shell

This is rc, the Plan 9 shell, reimplemented for Unix by Byron Rakitzis.

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.

This reimplementation of rc can be linked with GNU readline, BSD libedit, or similar line editing libraries, to make a pleasant interactive shell.

See COPYING for copying information. All files are

Copyright 1991, 1999, 2001-2003, 2014, 2015 Byron Rakitzis.

See INSTALL for build and installation information.

The current maintainer is Toby Goodwin[1]. Please contact him with any problems, questions, bug reports, or suggestions.

[1] mailto:[email protected]