XE(1) General Commands Manual XE(1) NAME atxec – run command expanding arguments from file or environment SYNOPSIS atxec command ... DESCRIPTION The atxec utility constructs and then executes command lines from specified arguments, expanding arguments like • ‘@file’ with the contents of file; • ‘@$VAR’ with the contents of the environment variable VAR; • ‘@@str’ with the string ‘@str’ (for quoting). Files and environment variables are split at whitespace into multiple arguments. You can use rc(1)-style quoting, i.e. everything between single quotes is escaped (and regarded as a single argument), and two single quotes in a row expand to a quoted single quote. Files can contain comments, text after ‘#’ is ignored (note: the ‘#’ must be preceded by beginning of line or whitespace.) EXIT STATUS The atxec utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. EXAMPLES TBD SEE ALSO execline(1) AUTHORS Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> LICENSE atxec is in the public domain. To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Void Linux November 20, 2019 Void Linux