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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF |
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE. |
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.\" $OpenBSD: system.3,v 1.13 2013/07/18 10:14:50 schwarze Exp $ |
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.\" $OpenBSD: system.3,v 1.14 2016/02/05 18:09:19 espie Exp $ |
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.\" |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2013 $ |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: February 5 2016 $ |
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.Dt SYSTEM 3 |
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.Os |
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.Sh NAME |
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Shell meta-characters present will be honored by the |
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.Xr sh 1 |
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command interpreter. |
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.Pp |
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It is often simpler to bypass the shell and run an external command using |
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.Xr fork 2 , |
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.Xr execlp 3 , |
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and |
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.Xr waitpid 2 |
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directly instead of having to sanitize a string for shell consumption. |