[Gambas-user] Xfree4.3 pointers

Rob sourceforge-raindog2 at ...94...
Fri Jan 2 18:33:17 CET 2004


On Friday 02 January 2004 12:21, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> & does not concatenate shell commands, it launches them in
> background. If you do "command1 & command2 & command3", you
> launch simultaneously command1, command2 and command3, and
> waits only for the end of the command3 command.
> Try to use ";" instead of "&".

I think he actually meant to use &&, which is like ; except it 
stops if any one of the programs returns an error.

Rob





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