In order to create a debian package from your shell script do as follow:

Let's consider our package name is dangling. We need to create 2 folders, first is called dangling and the second is DEBIAN which is inside of the dangling folder:

mkdir helloworld && mkdir helloworld/DEBIAN

You can copy the files into your package with the full paths on the destination filesystem. E.g. if you want to put a file in /usr/local/bin/ you put it in dangling/usr/local/bin/:

mkdir -p dangling/usr/local/bin
 cp /usr/local/bin/dangling.sh dangling/usr/local/bin/

In your DEBIAN directory (created at the begining of the post), create a control file with the below content:

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, Monaco, monospace; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;">Package: dangling
 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, Monaco, monospace; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;">Version: 0.1
 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, Monaco, monospace; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;">Maintainer: Alireza Hoseini
 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, Monaco, monospace; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;">Architecture: all
 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, Monaco, monospace; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;">Description: would wipe all docker dangling volumes out

NOTE: These are the mandatory fields in the control file.

Now build the package using dpkg-deb:

dpkg-deb --build dangling

This creates a dangling.deb file, which you can now install on any Debian installation with following command:

dpkg -i dangling.deb

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