[Gambas-user] EXEC vs. SHELL

[Benoît Minisini]

> 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
>

You can create a page at "/doc/shellexec" and put your text there, with the 
title "Differences between SHELL and EXEC".

Then in the SHELL and EXEC pages, you add a link to this page 
([/doc/shellexec]) in the "{seealso ... }" section.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît