From 6fd69bdda8b4d185fb636047ab8914989fc66252 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: axel <axel@liljencrantz.se>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 09:15:17 +1000
Subject: Many minor edits and clarifications to the documentation, including
 comments about the exit status of a few commands

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 doc_src/and.txt | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc_src/and.txt')

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>
 
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