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>Executing&nbsp;the&nbsp;second&nbsp;command&nbsp;only&nbsp;if&nbsp;the&nbsp;first&nbsp;is&nbsp;successful<A
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>To do this you would type:</P
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>command1 &#38;&#38; command2</PRE
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>Executing&nbsp;the&nbsp;second&nbsp;command&nbsp;only&nbsp;if&nbsp;the&nbsp;first&nbsp;fails<A
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>You can continue to use ';' (semicolon) characters to do more and more commands on the one line.</P
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