Shell Script

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

Rodney Green <> said on 07 February 2006 18:08:

> Hello,
> 
> In a shell script, does the command specified on one line wait until
> the previous line's command finishes before running? I've looked at a
> few tutorials but didn't find anything. I'm attempting to run a mail
> archiving script that has to be run for each mail archive file. I
> don't want them to all run at the same time as that would probably
> overload the system.     
> 

Rod

I'm not 100% sure, but if you put a semi-colon between commands it will
execute them in sequence

Michele


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