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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/or.txt | |
| parent | 6a0460f51e9e53d0c009dbfa5b74851d2f1c7095 (diff) | |
Change syntax of 'and' and 'or' to infix order
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diff --git a/doc_src/or.txt b/doc_src/or.txt index 3fc40f3c..d84e8286 100644 --- a/doc_src/or.txt +++ b/doc_src/or.txt @@ -2,22 +2,16 @@ \section or or - Conditionally execute a command \subsection or-synopsis Synopsis - <tt>or COMMAND1; COMMAND2</tt> + <tt>COMMAND1; or 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. +The \c or builtin is used to execute a command if the current exit status (as set by the last previous command) is non-zero \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 +make; or 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> |