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Manual:4.3 Guile Scripting: Show to a layman that Guile can invoke shell commands, which are common in bash scripts.

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Evan Davis <erdavis7 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 23:19:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>

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From: Evan Davis <erdavis7 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guile <at> gnu.org
Subject: Manual:4.3 Guile Scripting: Show to a layman that Guile can invoke
 shell commands, which are common in bash scripts.
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 18:48:26 -0400

In §4.3 (Guile Scripting) please mention §7.2.7 (Processes), or at
least the system/system* and open-pipe procedures.  Maybe include an
example of a guile script invoking shell commands, as is common in
bash.  As a layman, the manual's scripting section left me unsure
whether Guile could easily replace my typical bash scripts, and I
needed further help from Wingo on <irc://irc.freenode.net/guile>.
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