fish-shell/doc_src/or.txt
axel 6fd69bdda8 Many minor edits and clarifications to the documentation, including comments about the exit status of a few commands
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\section or or - Conditionally execute a command
\subsection or-synopsis Synopsis
<tt>COMMAND1; or COMMAND2</tt>
\subsection or-description Description
The \c or builtin is used to execute a command if the current exit status (as set by the last previous command) is non-zero
The or command does not change the current exit status.
\subsection or-example Example
The following code runs the \c make command to build a program, if the
build succceds, the program is installed. If either step fails,
<tt>make clean</tt> is run, which removes the files created by the
build process
<pre>
make; and make install; or make clean
</pre>