.TH "and" 1 "8 Feb 2007" "Version 1.22.3" "fish" \" -*- nroff -*-
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and - conditionally execute a command
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.SS "Synopsis"
\fCCOMMAND1; and COMMAND2\fP
.SS "Description"
The \fCand\fP builtin is used to execute a command if the current exit status (as set by the last previous command) is 0.
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The and command does not change the current exit status.
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The exit status of the last foreground command to exit can always be accessed using the \fC$status\fP variable.
.SS "Example"
The following code runs the \fCmake\fP command to build a program, if the build succceds, the program is installed. If either step fails, \fCmake clean\fP is run, which removes the files created by the build process
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make; and make install; or make clean
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