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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user