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Document passing arguments to externals better #527

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kubouch opened this issue Jul 4, 2022 · 3 comments
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Document passing arguments to externals better #527

kubouch opened this issue Jul 4, 2022 · 3 comments
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@kubouch
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kubouch commented Jul 4, 2022

I've seen a lot of issues about external arguments, like this one: nushell/nushell#5947.

We should have a page that documents all the ways you can call external with arguments (i.e., explaining that you can pass a list to an external as a list of arguments and that one long string with spaces will be considered as one argument).
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Wow... That's what I meet and confused before

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kubouch commented Jul 5, 2022

Also, you can run externals with ^$program-name, that should be documented as well since it might not be obvious but it's very useful.

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Kissaki commented May 29, 2024

There is no specific documentation for calling external [with or without ^] yet, right?

I assume Externs as well as an earlier introduction would be the places to put documentation about calling external executables?

ayax79 pushed a commit to ayax79/nushell.github.io that referenced this issue Jun 26, 2024
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parse name of positional args in parse cmd (nushell#527)
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* parse name of positional args in `parse cmd`

* Fix the problem that git stashes cannot be parsed correctly

* Fix parsing failure not in git directory

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Co-authored-by: agent <agent@nuc>
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