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

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

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Kraus Philipp
<phi...@fl...> wrote:
>
> 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)
>

LRN gave the reason why this happens, I won't rehash that out.

> 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
>

Can you create a batch file of the commands that show the cd failing
and not failing and attach it to the post back to this list?  I'm
having a hard time believing that it isn't working with ; and is
without.

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