Re: Deleting unused configuration files

[Γιώργος Μιχαλογιωργάκης <michalogiorgakis@gmail.com>]

O/H John Merchant έγραψε:
> 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?
> 

Hi,

with

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

you can see all the packages that have been removed but there are left
over configuration files.  Then you can delete these with

aptitude purge `dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | awk '{print $2}'`

I hope this is what you are looking for.


> Cheers,
> John
> 

Georgios