On Thursday 21 November 2002 10:53 am, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:57:00AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> > Which is "better"?
> > (cd ${DIRNAME}; ${FDESIGN} -convert ${FDFILE})
> > or
> > (cd ${DIRNAME} && ${FDESIGN} -convert ${FDFILE})
> >
> > if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
> > echo "\"${FDESIGN} -convert ${FDFILE}\" failed. Please investigate."
> > exit 1
> > fi
> >
> > I'm not used to the "&&" stuff. can someone explain to me just what it
> > does?
>
> The same as in C/C++: Run the first command, if that succeeded the second,
> if that succeeded return success and failure otherwise.
Thanks, André.
A
