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\section and and - Conditionally execute a command
\subsection and-synopsis Synopsis
<tt>and COMMAND1; COMMAND2</tt>
\subsection and-description Description
The \c and builtin is used to execute one command, and if it returns
zero status, also execute a second command.
\subsection and-example Example
The following code runs the \c make command to build a program, and if it suceeds, it runs <tt>make install</tt>, which installs the program.
<pre>
and make; make install
</pre>
\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
<pre>
or and make; make install; make clean
</pre>