Bash script to upload package list to ftp server

dannytatom · 2009-02-19 06:55:10

So I made my first bash script a few minutes ago and thought I'd share. It creates a list of installed packages then ups 'em to an ftp server. You'll need wput (it's small).

I haven't tried it on #! yet, but it works on my Arch box. Different commands of course, but I think these are the commands to do the same in Ubuntu. Correct me if I'm wrong. smile

#!/bin/bash

echo "Creating list of installed packages."

# Change 'user' to your username in the next 2 lines
sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep '[[:space:]]install$' | \awk '{print $1}' > /home/user/pkglist

filedir="/home/user/"
targetfile="pkglist"
host="ftp.yoursite.com/"
user="username"
pass="password"

echo "Uploading to $host."

cd $filedir
wput ftp://$user:$pass@$host/$targetfile

echo "Removing pkglist"
rm pkglist

echo "Done"

# After a fresh install, you can reinstall all packages by wget'n this file and running 
# dpkg --set-selections < pkglist
# dselect

Save it as ~/pkgup and run it with ./pkgup or, better yet, set it up as a daily cron job. smile

Last edited by dannytatom (2009-02-19 08:37:37)

corenominal · 2009-02-19 14:32:29

Nice script, thank you for sharing! smile

ZeroTruths · 2009-02-19 16:59:06

So if I understand correctly, this creates a backup of all of the installed packages and uploads them to an FTP server?

dannytatom · 2009-02-19 18:37:21

Nah, it just creates a list and uploads the list (http://im.dannytatom.com/pkglist) to an ftp server. It wouldn't be hard to mod it to download all the packages, tar 'em up, then upload that but didn't have much reason to do that.

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Bash script to upload package list to ftp server

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