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		panzi 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The curious case of shell commands, or how "this b... If you want to run a shell script, run a shell script. I.e. a text file with the executable bit set and a shebang. If you want to generate a shell script on the fly to then run it, take a step back and think about what you're doing.

oguz-ismail 9 months ago [–]

Or I can just use system() because it's there and not going anywhere

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