shell(1F) FMLI Commands shell(1F)NAMEshell - run a command using shellSYNOPSISshell command [command] ...
DESCRIPTION
The shell function concatenate its arguments, separating each by a
space, and passes this string to the shell ($SHELL if set, otherwise
/usr/bin/sh).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample output of shell command.
Since the Form and Menu Language does not directly support background
processing, the shell function can be used instead.
`shell "build prog > /dev/null &"`
If you want the user to continue to be able to interact with the appli‐
cation while the background job is running, the output of an executable
run by shell in the background must be redirected: to a file if you
want to save the output, or to /dev/null if you don't want to save it
(or if there is no output), otherwise your application may appear to be
hung until the background job finishes processing.
shell can also be used to execute a command that has the same name as
an FMLI built-in function.
NOTES
The arguments to shell will be concatenate using spaces, which may or
may not do what is expected. The variables set in local environments
will not be expanded by the shell because "local" means "local to the
current process."
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWcsu │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOsh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 5 Jul 1990 shell(1F)
