When I first moved to linux I had become addicted to keeping my distro updated and so I found myself typing and retyping

$ sudo aptitude update
password:
$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

At least once a day. Having read about shell scripts, I thought I’d try my hand at putting this into a shell script which, if you don’t already know, is linux’ more powerful answer to the Windows batch file.

So that’s what I did, and here’s how I did it.

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