AutoGen - The Automated Program Generator: 3.5.26 shell - invoke a shell script

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### 3.5.26 ``shell'` - invoke a shell script

Usage: (shell command)
Generate a string by writing the value to a server shell and reading the output back in. The template programmer is responsible for ensuring that it completes within 10 seconds. If it does not, the server will be killed, the output tossed and a new server started.

Arguments:
command - shell command - the result value is stdout

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