ashell is to be thought of as "another shell" or as "alternative" or "additional" shell. If you were at some point frustrated to find out that there is no way to capture the output of an OS command (one you submit by using stata's shell command) into a stata variable so that you can reformat it and reuse it or parts of it later then this is the module that solves your problem. It kind of adds to stata's shell command a feature like perl's backticks where you write something like "array = `os_command`" and your array contains the output of os_command.
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Publisher Info
Software component provided by Boston College Department of Economics in its series Statistical Software Components with number
S456833.
Size: Programming language: Stata Requires: Stata version 7 Date of creation: 13 Apr 2007 Date of revision:
19 Apr 2007 Handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s456833
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install ashell". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser. Contact details of provider: Postal: Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill MA 02467 USA Phone: 617-552-3670 Fax: +1-617-552-2308 Email: Web page: http://fmwww.bc.edu/EC/ More information through EDIRC