On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:36, Eric F Crist wrote: > Just wondering what the difference is between ; and &&? > > I use make depend; make; make install and others say they use:
This notation will run each command, one after the other, regardless of the exit status of the previous command. > > make depend && make && make install This notation will only run the subsequent command if the previous command exited cleanly without error. This is a much safer syntax. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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