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| author |  axel <axel@liljencrantz.se> | 2006-06-04 09:15:17 +1000 |
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| committer | axel <axel@liljencrantz.se> | 2006-06-04 09:15:17 +1000 |
| commit | 6fd69bdda8b4d185fb636047ab8914989fc66252 (patch) | |
| tree | 50883b516a46dec263490a0b20fb6319689e4956 /doc_src/and.txt | |
| parent | a85f4cc1c48052487b2c258cb01748597be927a5 (diff) | |
Many minor edits and clarifications to the documentation, including comments about the exit status of a few commands
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diff --git a/doc_src/and.txt b/doc_src/and.txt index 4d45ea9c..bd884b1b 100644 --- a/doc_src/and.txt +++ b/doc_src/and.txt @@ -2,16 +2,23 @@ \section and and - Conditionally execute a command \subsection and-synopsis Synopsis - <tt>COMMAND1; and COMMAND2</tt> +<tt>COMMAND1; and COMMAND2</tt> \subsection and-description Description -The \c and builtin is used to execute a command if the current exit status (as set by the last previous command) is zero +The \c and builtin is used to execute a command if the current exit +status (as set by the last previous command) is zero + +The and command does not change the current exit status. \subsection and-example Example -The following code runs the \c make command to build a program, and if it succeeds, it runs <tt>make install</tt>, which installs the program. +The following code runs the \c make command to build a program, if the +build succceds, the program is installed. If either step fails, +<tt>make clean</tt> is run, which removes the files created by the +build process + <pre> -make; and make install +make; and make install; or make clean </pre> |