Manual page for shell(1F)
shell - run a command using shell
SYNOPSIS
shell
command [command] ...
DESCRIPTION
The shell function concatenate its arguments,
separating each by a space,
and passes this string to the shell
($SHELL if set, otherwise
/usr/bin/sh).
EXAMPLES
Since the Form and Menu Language does not directly support background processing,
the shell function can be used instead.
-
`shell "build prog > /dev/null &"`
If you want the user to continue to be able to interact
with the application while the background job is running,
the output of an executable run by shell in the background
must be redirected: to a file if you want to save the output, or
to /dev/null if you don't want to save it (or if there is no output),
otherwise your
application may appear to be hung until the background job finishes processing.
shell can also be used to execute a command that has the same name
as an FMLI built-in function.
NOTES
The arguments to shell will be concatenate using spaces,
which may or may not do what is expected.
The variables set in local environments will not be expanded
by the shell because "local" means "local to the current process."
SEE ALSO
sh.1
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
© by Hans-Peter Bischof. All Rights Reserved (1997).
Last modified 21/April/97
