[X Newbies] Cascading command-line commands

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 4/7/03 10:15, "KL" <ee7klt at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> If I have a few commands I have to run, and each one does a remote get to
> install certain files, is there any way I can link all these commands so
> that I can just type all of it in and they  will all run, one after the
> other automatically?

As long as the commands are not dependent on each other (one command gets
certain information from the previous command), just separate them with
semi-colons:


command ; command ; command


Kirk

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