Conditional blocks of code in linux bash

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Published on 2010-12-27T15:15:57Z Indexed on 2010/12/27 15:55 UTC
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Nearly everybody knows very useful && and || operators, for example:

rm myf && echo "File is removed successfully" || echo "File is not removed"

I've got a question: how to put a block of commands after && or || operators without using the function?

For example I want to do:

rm myf && \
  echo "File is removed successfully" \
  echo "another command executed when rm was successful" || \
  echo "File is not removed" \
  echo "another command executed when rm was NOT successful"

What is the proper syntax of that script?

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