If you need to execute occasional shell commands during your
debugging session, there is no need to leave or suspend GDB; you can
just use the shell command.
shell command string
Invoke a standard shell to execute command string.
If it exists, the environment variable SHELL determines which
shell to run. Otherwise GDB uses the default shell
(`/bin/sh' on Unix systems, `COMMAND.COM' on MS-DOS, etc.).
The utility make is often needed in development environments.
You do not have to use the shell command for this purpose in
GDB:
make make-args
Execute the make program with the specified
arguments. This is equivalent to `shell make make-args'.
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