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| author | Doug Evans <dje@google.com> | 2011-11-15 05:06:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Doug Evans <dje@google.com> | 2011-11-15 05:06:35 +0000 |
| commit | ed59ded5ebf4f5eb5014612020c88ebd27f0b819 (patch) | |
| tree | 364c1a0084e846164c80cd0d339afcb9a5e7e209 /gdb/doc | |
| parent | 81f5d455defd839446d1f1b51ed84f170b47a5c1 (diff) | |
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Make "!" an alias for "shell".
* NEWS: Add mention.
* cli/cli-cmds.c (init_cli_cmds): Remove xdb_commands condition on
adding "!" command, always add it.
* cli/cli-decode.c (find_command_name_length): Recognize "!" as a
command of length one.
doc/
* gdb.texinfo (Shell Commands): Document "!".
testsuite/
* gdb.base/shell.exp: New file.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 7 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 02ef07b..15659d6 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2011-11-14 Doug Evans <dje@google.com> + + * gdb.texinfo (Shell Commands): Document "!". + 2011-11-14 Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com> Kwok Cheung Yeung <kcy@codesourcery.com> diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 0cadc96..9255b89 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -1347,9 +1347,12 @@ just use the @code{shell} command. @table @code @kindex shell +@kindex ! @cindex shell escape -@item shell @var{command string} -Invoke a standard shell to execute @var{command string}. +@item shell @var{command-string} +@itemx !@var{command-string} +Invoke a standard shell to execute @var{command-string}. +Note that no space is needed between @code{!} and @var{command-string}. If it exists, the environment variable @code{SHELL} determines which shell to run. Otherwise @value{GDBN} uses the default shell (@file{/bin/sh} on Unix systems, @file{COMMAND.COM} on MS-DOS, etc.). |