apt-get update, dist-upgrade, autoremove, autoclean in a single sudo command

Question

My usual command for keeping the machine up to date is rather verbose, and it can result in more than one password prompt if any command takes a long time:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get autoclean

I'd like to shorten this down to one command (preferably without using a global alias).

Answer 1

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Command-Grouping

Answer 2

Try

sudo sh -c "apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade;apt-get autoremove;apt-get autoclean"

Answer 3

Ok, it's really simple:

sudo (apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get autoremove && apt-get autoclean)