Re: Annoying and useless &&

On Wed, 2026-08-19 at 11:00 -0400, Pocket wrote:
> Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version r13.0
> Chapter 4. Security
> 
> For example there are && after
> 
> cat > /etc/pam.d/system-account << "EOF" &&
> 
> Which are quite useless as there is a blank line after the &&
> statement.

Blank lines are jumped over by &&. Try:

$ echo blurb &&


echo blorb
blurb
blorb

Now whether they are useful is a matter of appreciation (I don't like
them either, and they are a pain to align when editing...)

> It also happens in a number of the other places && is used as well.
> 
> In general the && doesn't contribute much of anything towards
> building 
> the particular package.
> 
> They are not used in the LFS book and really shouldn't be in the BLFS
> book either.

Pierre

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