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

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

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Paul wrote:
>> >> 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.
>>
>> Yes I know, but ; is correct. It seems the "cd" command fails
> I think what Philipp is trying to say is that when he runs all the
> commands on one line separated by a semicolon, the cd command fails,
> causing all the commands to fail, but when he runs them individually,
> they all work, including the cd command. What he is asking is why is
> the cd command failing when run with the other commands, as on its own
> it has no reason to fail.
>

WJFFM:

$ cd spud; ls -l; cd -; ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 Earnie Administrators  20 Oct 21 13:18 a.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 Earnie Administrators 288 Oct 21 13:19 a.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 Earnie Administrators 502 Oct 22 13:43 b.c
drwxr-xr-x 2 Earnie Administrators   0 Oct 23 08:43 c++
-rw-r--r-- 1 Earnie Administrators 129 Oct 22 14:32 c.c
/home/Earnie
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 Earnie Administrators 4096 Oct 23 08:43 spud

> I could be wrong, I just see potential miscommunication happening...

Maybe but speaking in generalities does not help the communication.
My guess is that the multi-statement command line has a mis-typed
directory name where the line by line has it typed correctly.

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Earnie
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