Putting 3 commands in one line for scheduled task

Or use semi-colons, eg. cmd1; cmd2; cmd3; The difference is that with && each current command must evaluate to true for the next to be evalutead. Truth is determined by the return code of the command, 0 or 1 (0 is true). Type this in, run it, then change true to false: true && echo "hi" If you try it with semicolons, ie: false; echo "hi" it will still print "hi" as each command is independent. && is "and", || is "or", which will try each evaluation and stop once it finds a true value. Try this: false || true && echo "hi" That prints "hi" because the full logic is "if either of these are true, do this". However, this won't print "hi" because it stops at the first true false || true || echo "hi"