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[gries818]

Does anyone know of a way to force commands to execute on a single line?

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Have you tried putting either one or two '&' symbols between the commands? I think you need two of them, and just combine all the commands onto one line and it will run each in order. I have had the problem sometimes though where it won't output stuff from successive commands, so if you put a bunch of stuff on one line, you'll only get the output from the first. Haven't used linux/unix in a while though, so that could have been fixed since I've last seen it.

[gries818]

Have you tried putting either one or two '&' symbols between the commands? I think you need two of them, and just combine all the commands onto one line and it will run each in order. I have had the problem sometimes though where it won't output stuff from successive commands, so if you put a bunch of stuff on one line, you'll only get the output from the first. Haven't used linux/unix in a while though, so that could have been fixed since I've last seen it.

Yeah... that is kind of the problem I'm having. The first command has its own prompt and I want the successive commands to execute there.