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Programatically Check If System Requires Restart

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💡 How do you programatically find out if a system needs to be restarted?

👉🏼 Check for the existence of "/var/run/reboot-required" file. Also, "/var/run/reboot-required.pkgs" shows the related packages.

Run cat /var/run/reboot-required to check if system requires a reboot. cat /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs shows the packages that involved.
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