docs: def shell_exec(command, **kwargs): # from gitapi.py
    """Excecutes the given command silently.
    """
    proc = Popen(shlex.split(command), stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, **kwargs)
  
    out, err = [x.decode("utf-8") for x in  proc.communicate()]
  
    return {'out': out, 'err': err, 'code': proc.returncode}