I would go even further and recommend that you try replacing the ; separator between commands with a && This means "if the last command was completed successfully, go on and execute the next command". Mike. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kelley Terry Sent: Sunday, 26 November 2000 9:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; SoloCDM Subject: Re: [expert] Controlling Process Order/Timing On Saturday 25 November 2000 05:54 pm, SoloCDM wrote: > > I'm trying to force commands following each other in a script to > execute one at a time once the preceding command has finished. > a simple bash shell script with the commands separated by ";" (without the quotes) will execute each command in turn when the preceding terminates. For more options check out the lists section in the man page for bash.
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