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diff --git a/guestfish.pod b/guestfish.pod index 746922f8..b464c717 100644 --- a/guestfish.pod +++ b/guestfish.pod @@ -189,6 +189,19 @@ but B<not> by a command. For example: Blank lines are also ignored. +=head1 RUNNING COMMANDS LOCALLY + +Any line which starts with a I<!> character is treated as a command +sent to the local shell (C</bin/sh> or whatever L<system(3)> uses). +For example: + + !mkdir local + tgz-out /remote local/remote-data.tar.gz + +will create a directory C<local> on the host, and then export +the contents of C</remote> on the mounted filesystem to +C<local/remote-data.tar.gz>. (See C<tgz-out>). + =head1 COMMANDS =head2 help |