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title: Module snail
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## Introduction

The snail library houses Hilbish's Lua wrapper of its shell script interpreter.
It's not very useful other than running shell scripts, which can be done with other
Hilbish functions.

## Functions
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|<a href="#new">new() -> @Snail</a>|Creates a new Snail instance.|

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snail.new() -> <a href="/Hilbish/docs/api/snail/#snail" style="text-decoration: none;" id="lol">Snail</a>
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Creates a new Snail instance.  

#### Parameters
This function has no parameters.  
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## Types
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## Snail
A Snail is a shell script interpreter instance.

### Methods
#### run(command, streams)
Runs a shell command. Works the same as `hilbish.run`.