Is it possible for bash commands to continue before the result of the previous command?

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Published on 2010-03-07T23:10:29Z Indexed on 2010/03/07 23:11 UTC
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When running commands from a bash script, does bash always wait for the previous command to complete, or does it just start the command then go on to the next one?

ie: If you run the following two commands from a bash script is it possible for things to fail?

cp /tmp/a /tmp/b
cp /tmp/b /tmp/c

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