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| author |  axel <axel@liljencrantz.se> | 2006-01-06 01:37:53 +1000 |
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| committer | axel <axel@liljencrantz.se> | 2006-01-06 01:37:53 +1000 |
| commit | f6b2b9f9a5a1f527346c7ac37699bca86db65ea2 (patch) | |
| tree | 24661aa168c83fb182be5709079228c0dd9e0b0b /doc_src/and.txt | |
| parent | 6a0460f51e9e53d0c009dbfa5b74851d2f1c7095 (diff) | |
Change syntax of 'and' and 'or' to infix order
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diff --git a/doc_src/and.txt b/doc_src/and.txt index ca454bce..9de49192 100644 --- a/doc_src/and.txt +++ b/doc_src/and.txt @@ -2,22 +2,16 @@ \section and and - Conditionally execute a command \subsection and-synopsis Synopsis - <tt>and COMMAND1; COMMAND2</tt> + <tt>COMMAND1; and COMMAND2</tt> \subsection and-description Description -The \c and builtin is used to execute one command, and if it returns -zero status, also execute a second command. +The \c and builtin is used to execute a command if the current exit status (as set by the last previous command) is zero \subsection and-example Example The following code runs the \c make command to build a program, and if it suceeds, it runs <tt>make install</tt>, which installs the program. <pre> -and make; make install +make; and make install </pre> -\c or and \c and can be nested, as in this example, that attempts to build and install a program, and removed the files created by the build process on failiure - -<pre> -or and make; make install; make clean -</pre> |