command spooling tangent

[Jim Roy <jim@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:16:12 +0100
Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> I find it far more common for scripts to use ";" when they really
> should have used "&&" than the converse. A particularly common case
> is "cd foo ; dosomething"; this should almost always be using "&&".
> 

guilty as charged :-)  Try for example, the old standard:
     tar -cf - * | ( cd targetdir; tar -xf - )
where targetdir doesn't actually exist.   I don't THINK anything
bad happened when I did this, but I haven't actually looked
at all the images I was trying to move either. 

Jim Roy
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