Re: Deleting unused configuration files

[Marco Romano <romano.san@gmail.com>]

John Merchant ha scritto:
> Hello all, I have a lot of unused configuration files left in /etc from 
> removed packages. Is there any way I can automatically remove them all?

You can get the list of all removed but not purged packages with:

$ dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/{print $2}'

or, in case you prefer aptitude:

$ aptitude search '~c'

You just have to put one of the above commands in a for loop:

# for pack in $(dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/{print $2}'); do dpkg -P $pack; done

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                                                          Marco Romano.