Category Archives: Linux

Stop Nano from adding newline character to end-of-file

I use Nano for all of my cli text file editing and I had always noticed that it puts a newline at the bottom of the file, but this has never bothered me much. Well today it caused me quite a headache at work, so I had to figure out […] Continue Reading

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Debian: show a list of all packages that are to be upgraded with apt

This is a super easy one, and can easily be found in the man page, but I’ve googled it enough times that I think it’s worth including here. To see packages with available upgrades, without installing them, use the -u option: apt-get upgrade -u […] Continue Reading

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