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# Try executing code cells in markdown

This is a `.md` file that has a special header and a `{code-cell}`
directive, that lets it

```{code-cell}
!hostname
```

You can see how this works [on the myst-nb
docs](https://myst-nb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/use/markdown.html).