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Too Good To, UNIX & Linux

Too good to #0006

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“Sudo on demand” from TGT0003 considered more useful for downgrading privileges on the fly

#!/usr/bin/env bash

want_user=letsencrypt
am_user="$(id -un)"
printf "Running as: %s\n" "${am_user}"
if [[ "${want_user}" != "${am_user}" ]]
then
        printf "Re-executing with sudo.\n"
        exec sudo -u "${want_user}" "${0}"
fi
...

JSON export of all installed packages on Debian/Ubuntu

#!/bin/bash

function dpkg_json(){
    printf "{\n"
    format='"${Package}": { "Version": "${Version}", "Architecture": "${Architecture}", "Status": "${db:Status-Abbrev}" },\n'
    dpkg-query --show --showformat="${format}" | sed '$s/,$//'
    printf "}\n"
}

dpkg_json | jq .

Urlwatch for a new version of a package in the Ubuntu package pool

---
name: "Ubuntu Curtin package (waiting for apt-key fix)"
url: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curtin/
filter:
  - xpath: //table//td[2]
  - html2text
  - grep: ^curtin.*\.deb$
---