On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 6:39 PM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk>
wrote:

> On Fri 25 Jan 2019 at 23:46:22 (+0000), Katnip wrote:
> > or sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-update
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> I've never seen this one. What does it do?
> Some sort of automatic editing of sources.list?


It's a shorthand way of executing two commands from one command line. The
second command will only execute if the first command is successful
(returns an exit status of zero). Here's a short test you can try:

$ false && echo First command was successful
$ true && echo First command was successful
First command was successful

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