[Gambas-user] EXEC vs. SHELL

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Doriano Blengino schrieb:
> Rolf-Werner Eilert ha scritto:
>> Doriano Blengino schrieb:
>>   
>>> Rolf-Werner Eilert ha scritto:
>>>     
>>>> Could someone explain me why there are two different ways of executing 
>>>> shell commands and how they differ in practice? I mean, when do I want 
>>>> EXEC and when will I want SHELL? What's the idea behind them?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for all hints :-)
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> SHELL invokes /bin/sh and passes it a single command line. /bin/sh 
>>> parses this command line exactly the same way you do on a normal shell. So,
>>>
>>>     SHELL "ls -l *.o >/tmp/list"
>>>
>>> .......
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Oh yeah, thank you very much for that comprehensive explanation!
>>
>> In fact, I find your answer so well written that I want to propose to 
>> take it up into the Gambas wiki, linked between SHELL and EXEC or just 
>> as part of both texts. What do you think?
>>   
> Thanks for your appreciation, it makes me feel good.
> 
> I think that my writing could be better - it was only a quick reply in a 
> forum -, but the more important thing you said is about cross-linking 
> together several pages of the docs: sections like "SEE ALSO" and 
> "DIFFERENCES BETWEEN... (similar ways to do something)".
> 
> The same problem is found in the normal man(1) pages - related arguments 
> are in fact not related in the documentation. For example, Samba and NFS 
> do (more or less) the same thing, but the documentation treats them as 
> completely separated. I understand this, but this is no good anyway.
> 
> Regards,
> Doriano
> 

Hmmm - I thought that was possible to do with the Gambas wiki pages. 
Some time ago I helped translate some of the pages (and I should 
continue to do so, I know), and there were links to other pages... Well, 
maybe Benoit would have to initiate that by creating a base page. 
Benoit, did you hear us? :-)

As to your English, we might ask some native speaker on the list to look 
through it.

Regards

Rolf