In tutorials and how-to's I often see commands combined. For instance, sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install pyrenamer There seem to be four possible connectors: & , && , || and ; . Though the & connector is clear to me (it sends a process to the background and leaves the terminal available), it is not clear what the difference is between && and ; . And I did not know of || until Kaya's comment. The following questions deal with the...
Originally asked by don.joey on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 3.0).
