depresolve

#!/bin/ksh
# Iterates over the arguments and resolves their dependencies (in
# Debian-based systems).
for file in "$@"
do
    echo "$file dependencies:"
    deps=""
    for word in `ldd $file`
    do
        # Iterate over ldd output: words starting with '/' are deps
        if [[ ${word:0:1} == '/' ]]
        then
            # The library is the part before the ":"
            deps="$deps `dpkg -S $word|cut -f 1 -d :`"
        fi
    done
    # Print libraries in alphabetic order, without duplicates
    echo $deps|tr ' ' '\n'|sort -u
done