Re: Deleting unused configuration files

[Andrei Popescu]

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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