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Document passing arguments to externals better
I've seen a lot of issues about external arguments, like this one: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/5947.
We should have a page that documents all the ways you can call external with arguments (i.e., explaining that you can pass a list to an external as a list of arguments and that one long string with spaces will be considered as one argument).
Wow... That's what I meet and confused before
Also, you can run externals with ^$program-name
, that should be documented as well since it might not be obvious but it's very useful.
There is no specific documentation for calling external [with or without ^
] yet, right?
I assume Externs as well as an earlier introduction would be the places to put documentation about calling external executables?