Yes.... I know what '\' does. What I am saying is that if one cuts and pastes it out of the book the resulting out put doesn't look like this:
<command> \ <more commands> \ <less commands> \ <final command> but looks like this: <command> <more commands> <less commands> <final command> \ \ \ The && I was talking about in the book looks like: <command> && <more commands> but after it is paste in looks like: <command> && <next command> :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Philippe Delavalade < [email protected]> wrote: > Michael Havens mercredi 30 juillet à 11:09 > > I've tried lfs many times..... never with any success maybe I had such > > difficulties because I was doing it on virtual machines. Anyways, I > bought > > a machine from 2006 and whatever windows version was out at that time > > (according to this > > <http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/history#T1=era7> page it was > > vista)... oops, now that I think of it someone put Ubuntu on it. In any > > case my 20 minute compile time became 6 minutes and I got everything to > > compile after I remembered to copy the lines that would not compile and > > paste them into a text editor and then fix some of the lines. If you are > > wondering what needed to be fixed some of the lines I would copy would > read: > > > > <command> \ > > <more commands> \ > > <less commands> \ > > <final command> > > > > would paste into the terminal as: > > > > <command> > > <more commands> > > <less commands> > > <final command> > > \ > > \ > > \ > > > > and sometimes it would do the same thing with an '&&' > > in any case I want to learn how to fix things. > > '\' at the end of line means that the same command continues next line. > > comman --option1 | > --option2 \ > --last-option > > '&&' means that commands should done one after other. > > command1 && command2 && comand3 > > But maybe I didn't understood correctly :-) > > -- > Ph. Delavalade > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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