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

[Kraus P. <phi...@fl...>]

Am 25.10.2012 um 17:18 schrieb Earnie Boyd:

> 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 run this eg:

cd C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\library\libxml2-2.9.0 ;

or the same with relative path names and I get the error:

Das System kann den angegebenen Pfad nicht finden.
(The system can not found this path)

I can run the command also with unix style path names /c/....

The cd command fails all the time if the semicolon is at the end.
If I remove it, the cd will be executated without any errors


>> 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.

The path exists, but the problem seems to be the ";" at the end of the cd
command

Phil