build_commandline docs

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You can use this to run things that might be difficult to quote out:

Suppose you want to run a program that requires quotes on its command line? Use this function to pass quotation marks:

s = build_commandline( { "awk", "-e", "'{ print $1"x"" } ) 

Surely that is not legal syntax, is it?

Pete

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