2014-09-09 I should use sshfs more regularly. To remind me how to use it: sshfs server:/dir /mnt -o idmap=user -p 1234 fusermount -u /mnt But much cooler would be using it similar to the /n filessytem in Plan9: Mounting the root filesystems of remote machines there. Commented (for the first time?) an article of freiesMagazin. [0] Mainly, I wanted to propose a shorter solution to this command line: dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall$ | tr -d '[:blank:]' | sed 's/install$//g' | awk -v ORS='' '{print($0" ")}' If you already have awk, then you usually don't need additional sed or grep, except for performance. I came up with this line: dpkg --get-selections | awk -v ORS=' ' '/install$/{print $1}' EDIT: I realized that my proposal produced the wrong result. Correct is: dpkg --get-selections | awk -v ORS=' ' '$2=="install"{print $1}' [0] http://www.freiesmagazin.de/20140907-septemberausgabe- erschienen#comment-3262 http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke