From 630e71df865b6c101c87d5c386a5e0e9ed9a3e0c 2012-06-10 22:29:26
From: Aaron Culich <aculich@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-06-10 22:29:26
Subject: [PATCH] mention alternate ! and !! short-hand in %quickref output for %sc and %sx

closes #1215

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diff --git a/IPython/core/magics/osm.py b/IPython/core/magics/osm.py
index 0ccb9f6..386e029 100644
--- a/IPython/core/magics/osm.py
+++ b/IPython/core/magics/osm.py
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ class OSMagics(Magics):
     @skip_doctest
     @line_magic
     def sc(self, parameter_s=''):
-        """Shell capture - execute a shell command and capture its output.
+        """Shell capture - run shell command and capture output (DEPRECATED use !).
 
         DEPRECATED. Suboptimal, retained for backwards compatibility.
 
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ class OSMagics(Magics):
 
     @line_magic
     def sx(self, parameter_s=''):
-        """Shell execute - run a shell command and capture its output.
+        """Shell execute - run shell command and capture output (!! is short-hand).
 
         %sx command