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Writing Deskshell commands

Operators

The following operators are provided in Deskshell:


=
assignment

<, > and >>
redirection

` (backquote)
substitution

^ (circumflex)
concatenation

|
pipeline

&& and ||
conditionals

& and ;
termination

::
list mark


NOTE: The operator precedence determines in which order multiple commands are evaluated.

Spaces may be included on either side of all of the above operators apart from ``='' and ``^'', which must not have spaces on either side of them.

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