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Clean for logs and old kernels
#!/bin/sh
#Check the Drive Space Used by Cached Files
du -sh /var/cache/apt/archives
#Clean all the log file
#for logs in `find /var/log -type f`; do > $logs; done
logs=`find /var/log -type f`
for i in $logs
do
> $i
done
#Getting rid of partial packages
apt-get clean && apt-get autoclean
apt-get remove --purge -y software-properties-common
#Getting rid of no longer required packages
apt-get autoremove -y
#Free up space by clean out the cached packages
apt-get clean
# Remove the Trash
rm -rf /home/*/.local/share/Trash/*/**
rm -rf /root/.local/share/Trash/*/**
#Delete all .gz and rotated file
find /var/log -type f -regex ".*\.gz$" | xargs rm -Rf
find /var/log -type f -regex ".*\.[0-9]$" | xargs rm -Rf
#Cleaning the old kernels
dpkg-query -l|grep linux-im*
#dpkg-query -l |grep linux-im*|awk '{print $2}'
apt-get purge $(dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | head -n -1) --assume-yes
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r|cut -d'-' -f3`-`uname -r|cut -d'-' -f4`
#Cleaning is completed
echo "Cleaning is completed"
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