Re: Deleting unused configuration files

On Thu,23.Oct.08, 13:44:53, Marco Romano wrote:
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

Or just do

$ aptitude purge '~c'

Regards,
Andrei
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