[Gambas-user] EXEC vs. SHELL

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Benoît Minisini schrieb:
>> 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,
> 

Ok, but:

When I translated pages into German, there used to be a line of country 
flags on each page and an "Edit" link as far as I remember. These don't 
exist anymore. How can I enter entering mode now?

Regards

Rolf