On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, tabanna wrote:

Hi SuSErs,

what are the meanings of & , and, &&

~ do they both order a process to the background ?

I assume you are talking about the bash shell. & and && actually mean two quite different things. && is used between two (or more) commands, where the second shall only be executed if the first returned without errors sort of like a shorthand for if. An example is: make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install which will run the three make commands in order, but stop if one of them fail. A single & means to run something as a background process. Regards Ole -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq