Run bash commands in prompts

AndrewHannigan August 5, 2025, 6:54pm 1

Running bash commands in prompts would be a convenient and powerful way to share context with Cursor. In Claude Code this is supported via the ! operator. Could Cursor support something similar?

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Run bash commands in prompts

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