[Buildbot-devel] Using wildcards in a ShellCommand shell script

[J. Félix Ontañón]

El Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:41:19 -0400
"Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin at zmanda.com> escribió:

> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:55 AM, J. Félix Ontañón
> <fontanon at emergya.es> wrote:
> >  But why that ShellCommand fails !!!
> >
> >  class UploadDebSrc(ShellCommand):
> >     command = ["ls", "../f*"]
> 
> Wildcards are interpreted by the shell, but buildbot bypasses the
> shell when you give a command as a list of strings.  If you give the
> command as a string, it will invoke the shell:
> 
>   command = "ls ../f*"
> 
> Dustin
> 

It works. Thanks Dustin. 

What is then the meaning of pass shell commands as a list of strings?
Reading 6.1.3 in BuildBot Manual i can't see why this is useful.