Using The && Operater

[shanenin]

I have this very simple script. If the first command fails, I want the script to stop. I thought the "&&" operater would do that. This is not stopping the script

#!/bin/bash

modprobe ath_pci &&
modprobe wlan_scan_sta
ifconfig ath0 up
iwconfig ath0 essid "linksys" key 6A4601E10F858AF350C545A658
dhcpcd ath0

why isn't the operater stopping the script. To test it I ran it as regular user. I would think that it would stop after the first command fails with an exit code of non one, but it does not.

[jcl]

That script is equivalent to

$ modprobe ath_pci && modprobe wlan_scan_sta
$ ifconfig ath0 up
$ iwconfig ath0 essid "linksys" key 6A4601E10F858AF350C545A658
$ dhcpcd ath0

[shanenin]

thanks for making that more clear. I suppose I could do this

modprobe ath_pci || exit 1
modprobe wlan_scan_sta
ifconfig ath0 up
iwconfig ath0 essid "linksys" key 6A4601E10F858AF350C545A658
dhcpcd ath0

someone else reccomended I use the set command

set -e

Edited January 27, 2006 by shanenin