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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Getting results of command execution
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:07:23 +0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:57:04 -0700, FredK wrote:

> I'm not sure I can accomplish what I want; I haven't been able to find
> anything that will let me execute multiple commands in the same
> invocation.
> 
> I want to pass along user commands to be executed, and there might be a
> "cd" imbedded in the string, or setting some environment variables, or
> any of a multitude of things that cause one command to depend on the
> results of some previous command(s), so it I can't just execute each
> command in a separate process.
>
You can run a shell script containing the commands (Unix/Linux 
terminology) and I'm certain Windows and and OSX have a similar 
capability.


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