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+-- Used to present a consistent shell view for :! commands in GHCi
+-- scripts. We're assuming that sh is in the path and that it
+-- is a Bourne-compatible shell.
+
+import System.Cmd
+import System.Exit
+
+shell :: String -> IO ExitCode
+shell s = rawSystem "sh" ["-c", s]