shell command-lineThe shell command passes a command line to the Operating System Command Shell for execution. It receives a single argument which it converts to string. The shell command passes the string as a command line to the Operating System Shell. The intrinsic value, error, is set if the Operating System was unable to execute the Command Shell.
If the argument to shell is empty or null, it becomes a test for availability of the Operating System Command Shell. error is set if the Command Shell is not available.
Examples:
shell 'iodbc -S FirstSQL -U Sales -i temp.sql -o temp.out -n'
shell 'delete temp.out'
shell @ { 'rename ', name, '.out ', name, '.sav' }