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Re: [hylafax-users] && - Help



On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:55:03PM -0400, Paul Kraus wrote:
> && refers to another command. The echo simply places a blank line.

Specifically, && means "execute the next command if the previous
command *succeeded*."

|| means "..if it failed".

Using, in all cases, the common Unix conventions for exit status.

Cheers,
-- jra
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