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Pre-patch, the man page encased the name of the program in quotes, which is inconsistent with other man pages, unnecessarily repeated "Shell" in the gist, and included "the" in the gist, which is also inconsistent with other man pages.
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Name
Shell - command language interpreter
Synopsis
$ Shell [--skip-shellrc] [--live-formatting]
$ Shell [--skip-shellrc] command_file [arguments...]
$ Shell [--skip-shellrc] -c command_string [arguments...]
$ Shell [--skip-shellrc] --format command_file
Description
The Shell utility is a command language interpreter, which reads commands from either a command string, a specified file, or the standard input.
The command language shall be described in Shell(5), The Shell Command Language.
Any extra arguments passed into arguments are placed in the local variable $ARGV and can also be accessed through the special variable $*.
NOTE:
The Shell utility does not promise POSIX sh interoperability.
Options
-c,--command-string: Executes the given string as a command and exits--skip-shellrc: Skips running the initialization file (at~/.shellrc)--format: Format shell code from the given file and print the result to standard output-f,--live-formatting: Enable live formatting of the line editor buffer (in REPL mode)
Examples
# Start an interactive REPL, ignoring the shellrc
Shell --skip-shellrc
# Execute a given string
Shell -c 'rm foo*'
# Execute the contents of a file with some arguments
Shell foo a b c
See also
Shell-vars(7) For details on local and environment variables used by the shell