Can I get “&&” or “-and” to work in PowerShell?

Question

&& is notoriously hard to search for on Google Search, but the best I\'ve found is this article which says to use -and.

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Answer 1

I think a simple if statement can accomplish this. Once I saw mkelement0's response that the last exit status is stored in $?, I put the following together:

# Set the first command to a variable
$a=somecommand

# Temporary variable to store exit status of the last command (since we can't write to "$?")
$test=$?

# Run the test
if ($test=$true) { 2nd-command }

So for the OP's example, it would be:

a=(csc /t:exe /out:a.exe SomeFile.cs); $test = $?; if ($test=$true) { a.exe }