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Shell commands

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 the standard shell to execute command string.If it exists, the environment variable SHELL determines which shell to run. Otherwise GDB uses /bin/sh.

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’.