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<p>Launching through the shell will NOT provide proper error handling, i.e. you will get an error via the return code.</p>
<p>Executing shell commands that incorporate unsanitized input from an untrusted source makes a program vulnerable to shell injection, a serious security flaw which can result in arbitrary command execution. For this reason, the use of <code class="computeroutput">shell</code> is strongly discouraged in cases where the command str