On Mon, Mar 2, 2015, at 06:27 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Chris Susi wrote: > > In 6.19, building coreutils the patch statement is: > > > > patch -Np1 -i ../coreutils-8.23-i18n-1.patch && > > touch Makefile.in > > > > If I'm reading this right, the "&&" doesn't add anything. Is this > > suppose to read > > > > patch -Np1 -i ../coreutils-8.23-i18n-1.patch && \ > > touch Makefile.in > > > > As it's written, it doesn't look like it makes a difference if it's > > there or not, just puzzling that it's there. > > Try running 'ls &&' and see what happens. You don't need the backslash. > > Actually, we generally don't use && in LFS but we use it a lot in BLFS. > I'll > remove it. > > -- Bruce >
Thank you. I've been running the commands in a script or copy/pasting them. I knew what && did, but didn't know it worked on multiple lines. TIL. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
