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| author |  axel <axel@liljencrantz.se> | 2005-09-20 23:31:55 +1000 |
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| committer | axel <axel@liljencrantz.se> | 2005-09-20 23:31:55 +1000 |
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diff --git a/doc_src/or.txt b/doc_src/or.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3fc40f3c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc_src/or.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ + +\section or or - Conditionally execute a command + +\subsection or-synopsis Synopsis + <tt>or COMMAND1; COMMAND2</tt> + +\subsection or-description Description + +The \c or builtin is used to execute one command, and if it returns +non-zero status, also execute a second command. + +\subsection or-example Example + +The following code runs the \c make command to build a program, or if it fails, it runs <tt>make clean</tt>, which removes the files created by the build process +<pre> +or make; make clean +</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> |