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One-liner to list Ubuntu packages you installed recently

Quick one liner to list the ubuntu packages you recently installed on a machine. I needed this to copy the configuration of one of my production boxes onto a dev environment:

sudo cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep \ installed | awk {'print $5'} | xargs

mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0 ... apache2`

9 November 2008

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