+#. type: =head2
+#: ../fish/guestfish.pod:679
+msgid "LOCAL COMMANDS WITH INLINE EXECUTION"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: textblock
+#: ../fish/guestfish.pod:681
+msgid ""
+"If a line starts with I<E<lt>!> then the shell command is executed (as for "
+"I<!>), but subsequently any output (stdout) of the shell command is parsed "
+"and executed as guestfish commands."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: textblock
+#: ../fish/guestfish.pod:685
+msgid ""
+"Thus you can use shell script to construct arbitrary guestfish commands "
+"which are then parsed by guestfish."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: textblock
+#: ../fish/guestfish.pod:688
+msgid ""
+"For example it is tedious to create a sequence of files (eg. C</foo.1> "
+"through C</foo.100>) using guestfish commands alone. However this is simple "
+"if we use a shell script to create the guestfish commands for us:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: verbatim
+#: ../fish/guestfish.pod:693
+#, no-wrap
+msgid ""
+" <! for n in `seq 1 100`; do echo write /foo.$n $n; done\n"
+"\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: textblock
+#: ../fish/guestfish.pod:695
+msgid "or with names like C</foo.001>:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: verbatim
+#: ../fish/guestfish.pod:697
+#, no-wrap
+msgid ""
+" <! for n in `seq 1 100`; do printf \"write /foo.%03d %d\\n\" $n $n; done\n"
+"\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: textblock
+#: ../fish/guestfish.pod:699
+msgid ""
+"When using guestfish interactively it can be helpful to just run the shell "
+"script first (ie. remove the initial C<E<lt>> character so it is just an "
+"ordinary I<!> local command), see what guestfish commands it would run, and "
+"when you are happy with those prepend the C<E<lt>> character to run the "
+"guestfish commands for real."
+msgstr ""
+