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Find and purge Ubuntu packages
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purgepkgs.sh
#!/bin/bash
# list all Removed packages with conf files (rc), and just print the package name
dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2 }'
# remove the packages/conf files
apt purge `dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2 }'`
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