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distrobox-host-exec — Execute a command on the host from inside a Distrobox container. See also: `distrobox`. More informa

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Problem

How to use the distrobox-host-exec command: Execute a command on the host from inside a Distrobox container. See also: distrobox. More information: <https://distrobox.it/usage/distrobox-host-exec/>.

Solution

distrobox-host-exec — Execute a command on the host from inside a Distrobox container. See also: distrobox. More information: <https://distrobox.it/usage/distrobox-host-exec/>.

Execute command on the host system from inside the Distrobox container:

distrobox-host-exec "{{command}}"

Execute the ls command on the host system from inside the container:

distrobox-host-exec ls

Code Snippets

Execute command on the host system from inside the Distrobox container

distrobox-host-exec "{{command}}"

Execute the `ls` command on the host system from inside the container

distrobox-host-exec ls

Context

tldr-pages: linux/distrobox-host-exec

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