Re: cleaning up a system

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> writes:

> i'd like to remove all files that debian didn't install, obviously
> ignoring places like /home, /var, /tmp, /usr/local, /dev (any other
> suggestions i have overlooked?)?
> 
> there's cruft, but it's too complicated and while i should configure it
> in the long run, for now i have thought of something like the following,
> which can run for a while. i took the output of a `find /` and deleted
> all lines corresponding to inodes in the above special directories
> (find has no exclude!!! wishlist!), and now i want to:
   ^^^^

Sure it does:

find / | egrep -v "/home|/var|/tmp|/usr/local|/dev"

;)

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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>