From: Jon Forums <lists@...>
Date: 2012-10-13T00:34:44+09:00
Subject: Re: && should work in a system call?

Roger Pack wrote in post #1079580:
>> This is purely an educated guess... it possibly matters whether you have a
>> SHELL environment variable set. If you do and it's set to bash or sh or csh,
>> I think that this will work correctly. If it's not set, you'll get the
>> Windows shell: cmd.exe - I don't think that it will grok &&.
>
> Yes, I was surprised to learn that, at least with windows OS's I've
> tried, cmd.exe *does* understand &&.  I'll be honest it surprised me

Indeed, cmd.exe sometimes surprises us in a good way

C:\mruby-git>cd build && cmake -G Ninja .. && ninja all test
-- Build type not set, defaulting to 'RelWithDebInfo'
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 4.7.2
-- Check for working C compiler using: Ninja
-- Check for working C compiler using: Ninja -- works
...
Total: 481
   OK: 481
   KO: 0
Crash: 0
 Time: 0.004001 seconds

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