Re: Execution of subsequent commands after a command crashes.

Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/2/26 9:13 PM, 王伟 wrote:

> test_crash ; if [[ $? -ne 0 ]] ; then
>      echo "case 1-1"
> fi
> 
> The second method above also won't work. Isn't the purpose of a semicolon
> to create a new line? Does it have some other side effect?

Its effect is to create a command list (one of the shell's compound
commands). It's not always equivalent to a newline.

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