#!/bin/sh # Script that takes a package as an argument and returns installed packages # that are dependent on it [ $# -eq 1 ] || echo "usage: who-depends package" apt list --installed | tail -n+2 | cut -d '/' -f 1 > /tmp/whodepends pkg="$1" deps_all=$(apt-cache rdepends $pkg | tail -n+3 | sed "s/^\s*//") for dep in $deps_all do grep -lq "$dep" /tmp/whodepends && echo "$dep" done