Chaining Commands

[007quick]

Hello, I use the terminal alot and was wondering how to chain commands so that it will do more than one thing. This way I could type one command and then walk away for a while. Just as an example: I type:
Make
Make zip
cd ../"nextfolder"
make
make zip

etc.
Any help would be great!

[jnike]

Hi 007quick,

I normally string commands together, when install a package or an application like;

# ./confguire && make && make install

This normally works for me....


I hope you find this info useful.

Jnike

[fingal]

... or suppose you wanted to clear your screen, list all the files in your current directory in short form, save the output of that to a text file, and search that for files containing the word 'java'. You might try:

clear && ls -s > saveList.txt | grep java saveList.txt

and the output might be:

4 helloworld.java
4 javahelp2-jhindexer.sh
4 javahelp2-jhsearch.sh
8 javahelp2.spec

If you need to do something like that repeatedly, you could save the commands (which can end up very complex) in a single file, defining that file as a script. So then you could do all that with just one command.

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