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``COMMAND``
A child process command line.
- CMake executes the child process using operating system APIs directly.
- All arguments are passed VERBATIM to the child process.
+ CMake executes the child process using operating system APIs directly:
+
+ * On POSIX platforms, the command line is passed to the
+ child process in an ``argv[]`` style array.
+
+ * On Windows platforms, the command line is encoded as a string such
+ that child processes using ``CommandLineToArgvW`` will decode the
+ original arguments.
+
No intermediate shell is used, so shell operators such as ``>``
are treated as normal arguments.
(Use the ``INPUT_*``, ``OUTPUT_*``, and ``ERROR_*`` options to