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Old 08-30-2007
Muktesh Muktesh is offline
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Lightbulb what does " ||" mean? ( Double pipe)
I found a line in one of the shell scripts,

cd /tmp || exit 2


What does this double pipe "||" mean?

Can any one tell what it is doing?


Thanks in advance.