Re: [Mingw-users] more than one command in shell

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Renato Silva wrote:
> 2012/10/25 Earnie Boyd <ea...@us...>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Kraus Philipp wrote:
>> > Hello,
>>
>> >
>> > I try to run more than one command within the MinGW shell:  cd mydir;
>> > ./configure; make; make install
>> > but this does not work. The cd command creates the error that the path
>> > does not exists, but if I run each
>> > command alone all commands are working.
>> >
>>
>> Yes, it works.  The execution stops at the first failing command.  If
>> you want the execution of the commands to execute regardless of if
>> they fail then you need to use || instead of ; where || represents OR.
>>  The ; is being treated as && which represents AND.
>>
>> > How can I concat the commands, so that are run one after another? On
>> > Linux I use the ; for seperating each
>> > command.
>>
>> The MSYS shell is bash which is usually what you would use on Linux.
>> And on Linux a failing command will stop the execution of the multiple
>> statements on one command line.
>>
>
> What?
>
> Desktop $ cd non-existent; cd failed-again; echo $wat
> bash.exe: cd: non-existent: No such file or directory
> bash.exe: cd: failed-again: No such file or directory
> ; does not skip on errors
>

Oh, well, I was wrong about my assumptions and you know what that say
about assuming something.

> Desktop $ cd non-existent || echo failed
> bash.exe: cd: non-existent: No such file or directory
> failed
>

As expected.

> Desktop $ cd non-existent && echo success
> bash.exe: cd: non-existent: No such file or directory
>

As expected

> Desktop $ mkdir non-existent
> Desktop $ cd non-existent && echo success
> success
> non-existent $
>

As expected.

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