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NAME
or - conditionally execute a command
Synopsis
COMMAND1; or COMMAND2
Description
The or builtin is used to execute a command if the current exit status
(as set by the last previous command) is not 0.
The or command does not change the current exit status.
The exit status of the last foreground command to exit can always be
accessed using the $status variable.
Example
The following code runs the make command to build a program, if the
build succeeds, the program is installed. If either step fails, make
clean is run, which removes the files created by the build process
make; and make install; or make clean
Version 1.23.1 8 Mar 2009 or(1)
fish 1.23.1 - Generated Sun Mar 8 14:13:10 CDT 2009