What is the meaning of &amp with regard to the test command?

Question

I learned about the command line command test and read a few examples. One of them was obscure to me:

 test 100 -gt 99 && echo "Yes, that's true." || echo "No, that's false."

I understand it to this point:

test 100 -gt 99 

evaluates whether 100 is greater than 99

echo "Yes, that's true." || echo "No, that's false."

If the expression turns out to be true do the command on the left of the double pipe symbol, otherwise do the right one.

I could not find any hint onto the &amp expression in the manual.

What is its purpose?

Answer 1

& doesn't mean anything to test, it's the HTML entity for the ampersand &, which has a special meaning in HTML so it cannot be presented as-is. Where ever that snippet came from, the presentation is broken.

Decoding that character, the line should be

test 100 -gt 99 && echo "Yes..." || echo "No..."

&& and || still don't have anything to do with test itself, but are conditional constructs for the shell. cmd1 && cmd2 runs first cmd1 then, if it returns a truthy value (zero), runs cmd2.