ATTENTION!

Work on this debian-goodies fork has been discontinued. Please use Debian's own debian-goodies.

The restart-services script, that was the one added feature/script to debian-goodies lives on at

 https://github.com/sourcepole/restart-services

There is no substantial documentation yet. Volunteer authors are more than welcome. Here are some examples to get you started.

Search all files in specified packages for a regex

$ dgrep ...

Search through all files in all installed packages for a regex

$ dgrep '.*'

Same, but also search inside compressed files

$ dzgrep '.*'

Calculate the total disk space usage of all files contained in all

installed packages whose names begin with 'lib'

$ dglob -0f ^lib | xargs -0 du -c | awk '{sum += $1} END {print sum}'

Fetch most recent version of package

$ debget

Fetch a specific version of package

$ debget =