# Gentoo update script

Tags: linux gentoo

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Description: A simple update script to sync the repository and update installed packages

# Security

Set the permissions of this script to 700 (-rwx------ aka only usable by root), we dont want a random user to change it’s contents, since it needs to be executed as root ;)

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chmod 700 update.sh

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#!/bin/sh

if [ "$1" != "--nosync" ]
then
  emaint -a sync
fi

emerge -uDavN @world