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

[Renato S. <br....@gm...>]

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

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

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

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