Rc is the command interpreter shell developed for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system. Its design is inspired by the Unix Bourne shell and many Rc commands share names and functionality with familiar Unix shell commands.
This tutorial introduces a minimal subset of Rc commands to enable one to perform the initial configuration of the Plan 9 operating system running on an SDF VPS slice (see Plan 9 on SDF VPS).
^H |
move cursor one character to the left and delete character |
^U |
delete current line text |
^] |
return to VPS Maintenance Shell menu |
^A |
move cursor to beginning of current line | Delete |
interrupt running program |
^E |
move cursor to end of text on current line | ← |
move cursor one character left |
^F |
file name completion | → |
move cursor one character right |
^HBackspace |
move cursor one character to the left and delete character | ↑ |
scroll window upward (small) |
^U |
delete current line text | ↓ |
scroll window downward (small) |
^W |
delete word to left of cursor | Page |
scroll window upward (large) |
Page |
scroll window downward (large) |
cat |
print file contents | lc |
print file list in columns (ls is also available) |
cd |
change working direcory | man |
print man page |
cp |
copy a file | mkdir |
make a directory |
date |
print current date and time | mv |
move a file |
echo |
print arguments | p |
print file page-by-page (press Enter for next page) |
ed |
line-oriented text editor | pwd |
print current working directory name |
fshalt -h |
halt file system, shutdown server | rm |
delete file or directory |
command < file |
take input for command from file |
command > file |
send output from command to file (create or overwrite) |
command >> file |
append output from command to file |
command-1 | command-2 |
pipe output from command-1 as input to command-2 |