From kde-commits  Sun Dec 08 17:40:01 2002
From: Mantia Andras <amantia () freemail ! hu>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 17:40:01 +0000
To: kde-commits
Subject: Re: quanta [POSSIBLY UNSAFE]
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On 2002. December 08., Sunday 19:01, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > As shell script should be able to be accepted as Quanta plugins, yes I
> > think I need the shell...
>
> no. set the executable bit on the script and it is treatet as any other
> program. you need a shell only if you need to expand shell metacharacter
> (variables, pipes/redirections) _at the command line_.

I made a simple shell script:
#!/bin/sh
ls -l $1

 Saved in a file, and set it to executable. Now, if I run without shell, it 
does not run, but running inside a shell runs well. Of course, this has $1 
inside, but we need such things.

Andras