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shell commands in notebooks

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• Subject: [mg22129] shell commands in notebooks
• From: Wolfgang Schadow <schadow at lin07.triumf.ca>
• Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 02:34:46 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi

How can I execute shell commands from within a notebook? The book says

!date

or 

Run["date"]

This works fine in a terminal session, but not in a notebook. It seems
that
the commands are executed but the output is going somewhere else. To see
this try

Run["date > foo"]
!!foo

So what's happening with the output? (Mathematica 4.0 under Linux)

Thanks for your comments,
Wolfgang

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