---
title: "Debian based full updates in one command"
date: "2020-04-20T10:24:40Z"
lastmod: "2020-04-20T10:24:40Z"
authors:
  - "utzer"
tags:
  - "apt"
  - "debian"
  - "linux"
categories:
  - "Linux"
canonical_url: "https://newblog.utzer.de/2020/04/20/debian-based-full-updates-in-one-command/"
---

I have this small script deployed on any of my #Debian based systems, it just does all the update, upgrade, dist-upgrade, autoremove and autoclean in one run.

```
#!/bin/sh

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
  sudo sh -c "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get update && apt-get autoremove && apt-get autoclean"
else
  sudo sh -c "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get update && apt-get install $@ && apt-get autoremove && apt-get autoclean"
fi
```

I have this script deployed in a lazy manner, I just have it sitting in my users home folder and called it "up", I did do a "chmod +x up" and just start it like this:

```
~/up
```

It also accepts one several package names as an arguments and that be called like this:

```
sudo ~/up package1,package2
```

This will then install "package1" and "package2".

I am not sure where I found this, but I surely did find this somewhere in the internet and just took it from there, you thanks to who ever put this together.