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41 .Nd pass a command to the shell
47 .Fn system "const char *string"
54 to the command interpreter
56 The calling process waits for the shell
57 to finish executing the command,
71 will return non-zero if the command interpreter
73 is available, and zero if it is not.
78 returns the exit status of the shell as returned by
80 or \-1 if an error occurred when invoking
84 A return value of 127 means the execution of the shell