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\section or or - Conditionally execute a command
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\subsection or-synopsis Synopsis
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<tt>or COMMAND1; COMMAND2</tt>
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\subsection or-description Description
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The \c or builtin is used to execute one command, and if it returns
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non-zero status, also execute a second command.
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\subsection or-example Example
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The following code runs the \c make command to build a program, or if it fails, it runs <tt>make clean</tt>, which removes the files created by the build process
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<pre>
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or make; make clean
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</pre>
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\c or and \c and can be nested, as in this example, that attempts to build and install a program, and removed the files created by the build process on failiure
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<pre>
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or and make; make install; make clean
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</pre>
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