Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Random832 writes:

 > And I am becoming increasingly confused as to what the purpose of
 > shell-command is.

As a command, it's a convenience for users who want to give commands
to a shell, rather than write a Lisp script, to interact with the
underlying system.  As a function, it's an API for embedding the same
functionality in a Lisp program.