With all those connected with & won't it skip the rest after the first failure? Or does 'no such program' or 'you don't have permission' not produce an error?

[–] Kimplul@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In bash, & just starts the program in the background, so all of the commands are run in parallel. You're probably thinking of &&, which runs the command on its left, checks its return code, and then decides whether run the command on the right.

Although, in this case there are no 'commands on the right' since all the commands are on separate lines. You'd need to backslash the commands together, something like

pip install "$1" && \
easy_install "$1" && \
...

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago

I saw it as wrapped, so couldn't dismiss the option that all were on a single logical line. But you're right, I was thinking of &&

[–] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That would be &&.

A single & will run them in parallel.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago

Thanks

[–] katze@lemmy.4d2.org 1 points 6 days ago

Yes, it should have been a ; instead.