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authorAnish Athalye <me@anishathalye.com>2015-02-03 18:09:25 -0500
committerAnish Athalye <me@anishathalye.com>2015-02-03 18:09:25 -0500
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#### Format
Shell commands can be specified in several different ways. The simplest way is
-just to specify a command as a string containing the command to be run. Another
-way is to specify a two element array where the first element is the shell
-command and the second is an optional human-readable description. Shell
+just to specify a command as a string containing the command to be run. Shell
commands support an extended syntax as well, which provides more fine-grained
control. A command can be specified as a dictionary that contains the command
to be run, a description, and whether stdin, stdout, and stderr are enabled. In
-this syntax, all keys are optional except for the command itself.
+this syntax, all keys are optional except for the command itself, and all
+streams are disabled by default.
+
+Another way is to specify a two element array where the first element is the
+shell command and the second is an optional human-readable description. **This
+syntax is deprecated.**
##### Example (YAML)