Sheridan C Rawlins

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```bash doit . echo_foo_bar foo bar. use_foo_bar_shlex Used "foo bar". use_foo_bar . check_results WARNING:root:use_foo_bar = WARNING:root:use_foo_bar_shlex = Used "foo bar" TaskFailed - taskid:check_results Python Task failed: '' returned False ```

Hmm… related to #412 - I think, if you put shell=False, then you _can_ return a list!

If this technique can be officially supported (either by fixing #412 or manually setting shell=False) then I think it would be good to document that you can do this!

Ok - so… for this one, given the response to #412 is to document, this one can provide this explicit behavior: https://pydoit.org/tasks.html?highlight=cmdaction#cmd-action > For complex commands it is also possible...

You might even put it as a separate use case - i.e. how to template non-shell CmdActions… (i.e. receive variables from other tasks, and modify when returning a list -...

Hey… sorry about that, I'm still a little foggy from a fever this holiday season… I think what I'm encountering, as you can probably tell, is holes in the documentation...

> Thanks. sorry but i am a bit lost. > > When you give an example, please make sure: > > * it is minimal, include only what does not...

Maybe (just thinking out loud) the template for Feature Request could make that more clear - I _did_ choose Feature Request from the list of options, so wasn't reporting a...

Maybe we could sync on slack or whatever after the holidays. We’re considering using doit for a big project that currently has lots of disjoint / untested bash code that...

```bash doit . echo_as_list_in_CmdAction_shell_False foo bar. echo_as_list_in_CmdAction . check_results WARNING:root:echo_as_list_in_CmdAction = " " WARNING:root:echo_as_list_in_CmdAction_shell_False = "foo bar" TaskFailed - taskid:check_results Python Task failed: '' returned False ```