NAME

	9, 9.rc, u, u.rc – run Plan 9 or Unix commands

SYNOPSIS

	9 cmd [ args ... ] . 9 (from sh(1)) 9.rc cmd [ args ... ] . 9.rc (from rc(1)) u cmd [ args ... ] . u (from sh(1)) u.rc cmd [ args ... ] . u.rc (from rc(1))

DESCRIPTION

Because Plan 9 supplies commands with the same name as but different behavior than many basic Unix system commands (e.g., grep, sed, mkdir, rm), it is not recommended to run with the Plan 9 bin directory ahead of the system directories. 9 is a shell script that sets up a Plan 9 environment and runs cmd . It sets $PLAN9 if necessary and adds $PLAN9/bin to the beginning of $PATH before running cmd. If run with no arguments, 9 does not do anything, so it can be invoked from sh-style shells using . 9 in order to make the current shell start running in the Plan 9 environment. 9.rc is the same as 9 but written for use by the shell rc(1). U and u.rc are the inverse of 9 and 9.rc: they move $PLAN9/bin to the end of the path.

EXAMPLES

	Search for greek in the password file: $ 9 grep '[α−ζ]' /etc/passwd Start an rc(1) with the Plan 9 commands in the path before the system commands, and then run the Unix ls: $ 9 rc % u ls

SOURCE

	/usr/local/plan9/bin/9 /usr/local/plan9/bin/9.rc /usr/local/plan9/bin/u /usr/local/plan9/bin/u.rc

SEE ALSO

	intro(1)

BUGS

	Some shell configurations (notably, oh-my-zsh) define 9 as an alias for cd –9, which makes the 9 command described here inaccessible. In such shells, it is necessary to unalias 9 in your initialization scripts.