\section and and - conditionally execute a command \subsection and-synopsis Synopsis COMMAND1; and COMMAND2 \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 0. The and command does not change the current exit status. The exit status of the last foreground command to exit can always be accessed using the $status variable. \subsection and-example Example The following code runs the \c make command to build a program, if the build succeeds, the program is installed. If either step fails, make clean is run, which removes the files created by the build process
make; and make install; or make clean