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\section or or - Conditionally execute a command
\subsection or-synopsis Synopsis
<tt>COMMAND1; or COMMAND2</tt>
\subsection or-description Description
The \c or builtin is used to execute a command if the current exit status (as set by the last previous command) is non-zero
\subsection or-example Example
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
<pre>
make; or make clean
</pre>