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Chaining Unix Commands

Say, you want to execute a command only if another command is successful then you use &&.

And if you want a command to be executed if another command has failed, you use ||.

  1. Create a file tea_ready:

    touch tea_ready
    
  2. The following command would print "Tea is ready" if tea_ready file exists:

    ls -l tea_ready && echo "Tea is ready"
    
  3. Delete the file tea_ready:

    rm tea_ready
    
  4. Check the command from #2 again:

    ls -l tea_ready && echo "Tea is ready"
    
  5. The following will print "Tea is not ready":

    ls -l tea_ready || echo "Tea is not ready"
    
  6. You can use brackets to avoid confusion:

    (ls -l tea_ready && echo "Tea is ready") || echo "Tea is not ready"
    

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