Re: ignore errors on specific command

[Payal]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:16:53AM +0200, Stephan Beal wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Payal <address@hidden>wrote:
> 
> > all:
> >        cmd1 ; cmd2; cmd3
> >
> > How to ignore errors from cmd2 only? Putting -cmd2 will not work here.
> >
 
On the same line how do I turn OFF echoing of cmd2 and cmd3 only.

 
> The return value of cmd2 WILL be ignored here. cmd2 might still generate
> error messages but it will not cause make to fail because make is only
> interested in the last return code of each shell command (in this case, that
> of cmd3).
> 
> That said, you can explicitly force the return code to be 0 with:
> 
> all:
>     cmd1 ; cmd2 || true ; cmd3

So, to ignore errors from cmd3, I have to do,

     cmd1 ; cmd2 ; cmd3 || true

right?


With warm regards,
-Payal
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