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- Subject: Re: [SLUG] apt-get purge aftger apt-get remove
- From: Michael Chesterton <chesty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:51:34 +1100
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On 28/10/2009, at 9:35 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote:
peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I've done apt-get remove to get rid of some packages, but I should
have done
apt-get remove --purge. How do I get rid of the config file
droppings all
over my system?
dpkg --list | grep ^rc
# sudo dpkg --purge $(dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{print $2}')
What a waste, piping grep to awk. I suppose you also eat kittens?
sudo dpkg --purge $(dpkg --list | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}')
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