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domsson / succade

Run, feed and style your Lemonbar with ease
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Document the no-shell popen behavior #41

Closed domsson closed 3 years ago

domsson commented 3 years ago

As became evident through this video, not having the block's commands being run through a shell (and therefore, not supporting pipes etc) does go against the expectations of users and makes it seem like this is a bug. Better documentation should help here. In the future, considering a new command line switch to enable a vanilla popen() behavior (spawning a shell) would be an option, but I'd rather stick with the minimalist solution.

domsson commented 3 years ago

There is now an entire paragraph / section in the README dedicated to this. :)