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fix(windows) shell_command on windows, minor parsing (#6811)
## Summary
Enables shell_command for windows users, and starts adding some basic
command parsing here, to at least remove powershell prefixes. We'll
follow this up with command parsing but I wanted to land this change
separately with some basic UX.

**NOTE**: This implementation parses bash and powershell on both
platforms. In theory this is possible, since you can use git bash on
windows or powershell on linux. In practice, this may not be worth the
complexity of supporting, so I don't feel strongly about the current
approach vs. platform-specific branching.

## Testing
- [x] Added a bunch of tests 
- [x] Ran on both windows and os x
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.devcontainer chore: install an extension for TOML syntax highlighting in the devcontainer (#1650) 2025-07-22 10:58:09 -07:00
.github Update defaults to gpt-5.1 (#6652) 2025-11-17 17:40:11 -08:00
.vscode Move rust analyzer target dir (#5328) 2025-10-18 17:31:46 -07:00
codex-cli detect Bun installs in CLI update banner (#5074) 2025-10-14 17:49:44 +00:00
codex-rs fix(windows) shell_command on windows, minor parsing (#6811) 2025-11-17 22:23:53 -08:00
docs Update defaults to gpt-5.1 (#6652) 2025-11-17 17:40:11 -08:00
scripts fix: ToC so it doesn’t include itself or duplicate the end marker (#4388) 2025-11-05 14:52:51 -08:00
sdk/typescript feat(ts-sdk): allow overriding CLI environment (#6648) 2025-11-14 19:44:19 +00:00
.codespellignore feat: make it possible to toggle mouse mode in the Rust TUI (#971) 2025-05-16 16:16:50 -07:00
.codespellrc TypeScript SDK scaffold (#4455) 2025-09-29 13:27:13 -07:00
.gitignore nit: personal git ignore (#6787) 2025-11-17 17:45:52 +00:00
.npmrc chore: migrate to pnpm for improved monorepo management (#287) 2025-04-18 16:25:15 -07:00
.prettierignore [apply-patch] Clean up apply-patch tool definitions (#2539) 2025-08-21 20:07:41 -07:00
.prettierrc.toml Initial commit 2025-04-16 12:56:08 -04:00
AGENTS.md tests: replace mount_sse_once_match with mount_sse_once for SSE mocking (#6640) 2025-11-13 18:04:05 -08:00
CHANGELOG.md Documentation improvement: add missing period (#3754) 2025-10-30 13:01:33 -07:00
cliff.toml docs(changelog): update install command to @openai/codex@<version> (#2073) 2025-10-18 11:02:22 -07:00
flake.lock Fix nix build (#4048) 2025-10-17 12:19:08 -07:00
flake.nix Fix nix build (#4048) 2025-10-17 12:19:08 -07:00
LICENSE Initial commit 2025-04-16 12:56:08 -04:00
NOTICE resizable viewport (#1732) 2025-07-31 00:06:55 +00:00
package.json chore: subject docs/*.md to Prettier checks (#4645) 2025-10-03 11:35:48 -07:00
pnpm-lock.yaml [exec] Add MCP tool arguments and results (#5899) 2025-10-29 14:23:57 -07:00
pnpm-workspace.yaml TypeScript SDK scaffold (#4455) 2025-09-29 13:27:13 -07:00
PNPM.md fix: include pnpm lock file (#377) 2025-04-18 17:01:11 -07:00
README.md docs: add example config.toml (#5175) 2025-11-03 18:19:26 -08:00

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