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Improve documentation of which shell is used by GDB's shell commands 

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2020-06-26  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>

	* gdb.texinfo (Shell Commands): More accurate description of use
	of $SHELL.  Reported by Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>.
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2020-06-26 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* gdb.texinfo (Shell Commands): More accurate description of use
of $SHELL. Reported by Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>.
2020-06-23 Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Maintenance Commands): Document new 'maint print

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@itemx !@var{command-string}
Invoke a standard shell to execute @var{command-string}.
Note that no space is needed between @code{!} and @var{command-string}.
If it exists, the environment variable @code{SHELL} determines which
shell to run. Otherwise @value{GDBN} uses the default shell
(@file{/bin/sh} on Unix systems, @file{COMMAND.COM} on MS-DOS, etc.).
On GNU and Unix systems, the environment variable @code{SHELL}, if it
exists, determines which shell to run. Otherwise @value{GDBN} uses
the default shell (@file{/bin/sh} on GNU and Unix systems,
@file{cmd.exe} on MS-Windows, @file{COMMAND.COM} on MS-DOS, etc.).
@end table
The utility @code{make} is often needed in development environments.