[ILUG] Strange problem with oggdec, which became a question about time.

[John Moylan]

Use && instead of ;
with && a command will only run after the first command has succeeded.

date && time oggdec -o 123.wav dante.ogg && date


On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 09:26, Nick Murtagh wrote:
> Niall O Broin wrote:
> > date;time oggdec -o 123.wav dante.ogg;date
> > Wed Feb 25 00:20:35 GMT 2004
> > OggDec 1.0.1
> > Decoding "dante.ogg" to "123.wav"
> >         [100.0%]
> > 
> > real    0m1.001s
> > user    0m0.805s
> > sys     0m0.189s
> > Wed Feb 25 00:20:36 GMT 2004
> 
> Is it possible the second date gets to run before time finishes,
> but doesn't get to do its output until time finishes? Or is
> that complete nonsense?
-- 
John Moylan
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