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How do you execute multiple actions on a single org-link?

Org-mode has links that can initiate actions, such as elisp: and shell:. It would be nice to initiate several such actions on following a single link.

Just creating a shell-file containing the tasks is possible, but seems inelegant.

How is this best done?

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You can separate shell commands with a ;, like so:

[[shell:whoami%3B%20id][Two commands]]

The link you type in would be shell:whoami; id (it's stored in the document with special characters encoded).

Similarly, for Emacs Lisp, the link you type in might be:

elisp:(progn (message "Hello") (message "World!"))
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  • For shell scripts, cmd1 && cmd2 might be better as it only executes the second command if the first succeeded.
    – erikstokes
    Aug 19, 2015 at 23:35
  • Works for several shell commands or several elisp commands. How would you execute two shell commands and then open a file?
    – serv-inc
    Aug 20, 2015 at 11:16

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