AmigaDOS: call several commands in a single command line

[pintcat]

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering if it is possible to call a whole chain of commands in a single command line (executed one by one). In a Linux shell you would use ';' or '&&' to achieve this. Is there a similar way for AmigaDOS?

[Toni Wilen]

CTRL+J after each command should work.

[PeterK]

You can get a new line without processing the previous command with [CTRL J]

 
Try this:
 
echo 1 [CTRL J]
echo 2 [CTRL J]
echo 3 
 
or use Run with a "+" at the end of the line:
 
Run echo 1 +
    echo 2 +
    echo 3

Ok, Toni was faster

[pintcat]

ARRRGGH... I was about to complain that your suggestions don't work, but, in fact, they do work if executed in a vanilla CLI or Shell window. On the other hand they behave odd in ViNCEd which is my preferred shell (if I connect several commands with Ctrl+J only the last one will be executed), but I think I can work with that. Thank you very much for your help.

[thomas]

Install Pipe 1.5 from Aminet and follow the docs. Then you can seperate several commands by ||.

[PeterK]

Sorry for the >NIL: in my example....
That was a little bit too ambitious, just pointless for the echo commands.

If you use the pipe, as Thomas suggested, then don't forget to define it in the S:Shell-Startup:
Set _pchar "|"
Set _mchar "||"

[pintcat]

@PeterK: I know, echo was just an example and I got your point.
Pipe is a nice little tool. It also enables you to use PIPE: in a MSDOS/Unix like manner. I'll see about it.