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.\"
.\" cook - file construction tool
.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1997 Peter Miller;
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
.\"
.\" MANIFEST: User Guide, Built-In Functions, Shell
.\"
.H 2 "shell"
The arguments are interpreted as a command to be passed to the operating system.
The result is one word for
each white-space separated word of the output of the command.
.P
The command will not be echoed unless the -No_Silent option
is specified on the command line.
.H 3 "Example"
Read the date and time and assign it to a variable:
.eB
now = [shell date];
.eE
Do not use the shell function to expand a filename wildcard,
used the [wildcard] function instead.
.H 3 "See Also"
collect_lines,
execute,
wildcard
.H 3 "Also Known As"
collect
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