How to do multiple lines with shell?

[Bob Paw]

For example:

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shell "if exist filename (...echo It's there...) Else (...echo Not there!)"
sleep

[petan]

You ask on the same things in three threads ..
Stay in one plz !

A) What is your OS ??
B) You don't need shell !
Use command 'fileexists' instead
http://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php ... Fileexists

[Bob Paw]

First of all, no I don't, but anyway, it's Windows 7
BTW, you didn't answer my question. That's only an example. Sometimes I might need it for other things but it's not cmd help that I want, I know I could use | or &. So, what about creating files?

[dkl]

The command given to shell is sent directly to cmd.exe (on Windows anyways), so you can use whatever line/statement separators cmd.exe supports. I think cmd.exe supports at least && to chain commands together, as in command1 && command2. Another solution could be to use multiple shell() invocations.