From 85965cd0533444d8bf3327c1614e9a9ab752a539 2014-12-26 22:47:22 From: Kyle Rawlins Date: 2014-12-26 22:47:22 Subject: [PATCH] typo --- diff --git a/docs/source/interactive/reference.rst b/docs/source/interactive/reference.rst index f48c6d4..236bcbe 100644 --- a/docs/source/interactive/reference.rst +++ b/docs/source/interactive/reference.rst @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ Manual capture of command output and magic output You can assign the result of a system command to a Python variable with the syntax ``myfiles = !ls``. Similarly, the result of a magic (as long as it returns a value) can be assigned to a variable. For example, the syntax ``myfiles = %sx ls`` -is equivalent to the above system command example (the :magic:`sx` runs a shell command +is equivalent to the above system command example (the :magic:`sx` magic runs a shell command and captures the output). Each of these gets machine readable output from stdout (e.g. without colours), and splits on newlines. To explicitly get this sort of output without assigning to a variable, use two