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use std::process::Command; fn main() { Command::new("sh").arg("-c").arg("echo Hello World!").spawn().unwrap(); }

• funkajunk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just fucking threw up

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  • 30p87@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I did too. Multiple times in fact, I had to look at the other Rust code!

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• TadoTheRustacean@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Isn’t echo a shell builtin?

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  • pranaless@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes and no. While coreutils does provide an echo binary, shells also have a built-in for optimisation purposes.

    At first I had the code calling the binary directly, but then changed it to spawning a shell (and so using the builtin). It’s very cursed either way.

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