Re: 7-zip in PASE

["Barry L. Kline" <blkline@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Scott Klement wrote:

> So it's better to do this:
>
> cd /whatever && somecmd
>
> In this case, the somecmd command is only executed if the CD command was 
> successful.  Therefore, if the directory change doesn't work, the error 
> message will be the one from the cd command, and the somecmd command 
> won't be executed.


For completeness, note that if you substitute two pipe symbols '||'
instead of the two ampersands then the subsequent command will be
executed only if the first one failed with an error.   That can
occasionally come in handy.

Thus:

do this || and do this if the prior command failed.

Barry
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