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Diffstat (limited to 'library/std/src/process.rs')
| -rw-r--r-- | library/std/src/process.rs | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/library/std/src/process.rs b/library/std/src/process.rs index ae4a0775875..2c7ed4614bc 100644 --- a/library/std/src/process.rs +++ b/library/std/src/process.rs @@ -557,8 +557,10 @@ impl Command { /// /// [`args`]: Command::args /// - /// Note that the argument is passed to the program directly as is, so you shouldn't wrap it in quotes - /// or escape special characters the same way you would do that when running the program from terminal. + /// Note that the argument is not passed through a shell, but given + /// literally to the program. This means that shell syntax like quotes, + /// escaped characters, word splitting, glob patterns, substitution, etc. + /// have no effect. /// /// # Examples /// @@ -585,8 +587,10 @@ impl Command { /// /// [`arg`]: Command::arg /// - /// Note that each argument is passed to the program directly as is, so you shouldn't wrap it in quotes - /// or escape special characters the same way you would do that when running the program from terminal directly. + /// Note that the arguments are not passed through a shell, but given + /// literally to the program. This means that shell syntax like quotes, + /// escaped characters, word splitting, glob patterns, substitution, etc. + /// have no effect. /// /// # Examples /// |