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  18 <h3 class="section">Shell commands</h3>
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  20    <p>If you need to execute occasional shell commands during your
  21 debugging session, there is no need to leave or suspend GDB; you can
  22 just use the <code>shell</code> command.
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  25 <dt><code>shell </code><var>command string</var><code></code>
  26      <dd>Invoke a standard shell to execute <var>command string</var>.
  27 If it exists, the environment variable <code>SHELL</code> determines which
  28 shell to run.  Otherwise GDB uses the default shell
  29 (<code>/bin/sh</code> on Unix systems, <code>COMMAND.COM</code> on MS-DOS, etc.).
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  32    <p>The utility <code>make</code> is often needed in development environments.
  33 You do not have to use the <code>shell</code> command for this purpose in
  34 GDB:
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  37 <dt><code>make </code><var>make-args</var><code></code>
  38      <dd>Execute the <code>make</code> program with the specified
  39 arguments.  This is equivalent to <code>shell make </code><var>make-args</var><code></code>.
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