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@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ of one or more subprocesses to execute. The arguments take the form of a standard shell pipeline where each \fIarg\fR becomes one word of a command, and each distinct command becomes a subprocess. +The result of the command is the standard output of the final subprocess in +the pipeline, interpreted using the system \fBencoding\fR; to use any other +encoding (especially including binary data), the pipeline must be +\fBopen\fRed, configured and read explicitly. .PP If the initial arguments to \fBexec\fR start with \fB\-\fR then they are treated as command-line switches and are not part @@ -411,7 +415,9 @@ With the file \fIcmp.bat\fR looking something like: .CS @gcc %* .CE +.PP or like another variant using single parameters: +.PP .CS @gcc %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 .CE |