From: Jim Roy <jim@nga.com>
To: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: command spooling tangent
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:27:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050804092750.74f0ae75.jim@nga.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17137.63740.541674.508010@cerise.gclements.plus.com>
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:16:12 +0100
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> I find it far more common for scripts to use ";" when they really
> should have used "&&" than the converse. A particularly common case
> is "cd foo ; dosomething"; this should almost always be using "&&".
>
guilty as charged :-) Try for example, the old standard:
tar -cf - * | ( cd targetdir; tar -xf - )
where targetdir doesn't actually exist. I don't THINK anything
bad happened when I did this, but I haven't actually looked
at all the images I was trying to move either.
Jim Roy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-04 16:27 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <60a7468905080200315678d209@mail.gmail.com>
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2005-08-02 13:14 ` a command "spool", ie queueing commands? asterr
2005-08-04 0:57 ` Emiliano Castagnari
2005-08-04 7:26 ` urgrue
2005-08-04 11:16 ` Glynn Clements
2005-08-04 16:27 ` Jim Roy [this message]
2005-08-09 0:54 ` Mike Castle
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