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+The documentation of ``install_command`` now also mentions that you can provide arbitrary commands - by :user:`jugmac00`
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@@ -306,6 +306,13 @@ Complete list of settings that you can put into ``testenv*`` sections:
     such as ``--pre`` (configured as ``pip_pre``) and potentially index-options from the
     deprecated :conf:`indexserver` option.
 
+    .. note::
+
+        You can also provide arbitrary commands to the ``install_command``. Please take care that these commands can be
+        executed on the supported operating systems. When executing shell scripts we recommend to not specify the script
+        directly but instead pass it to the appropriate shell as argument (e.g. prefer ``bash script.sh`` over
+        ``script.sh``).
+
 .. conf:: list_dependencies_command ^ ARGV ^ python -m pip freeze
 
     .. versionadded:: 2.4