On 5/23/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mike McClain([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set
> > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved,
> > upgraded, removed.
> >
> > How does one clean up this mess conveniently?
>
> If these leftovers are due to packages removed but not purged, this
> will tell you:
> grep -B1 "Status: deinstall ok config-files" /var/lib/dpkg/status \
> | grep "Pac" | cut -d" " -f2
> and
> for f in $( the above line ); do dpkg -P $f; done
> will clean up.
Thanks for this jewel Mike! I am still trying to grok the " -f2.
It's easy enough. -d" " sets the delimiter to space instead of the
default TAB, and -f2 selects the second field according to that
delimiter. See the cut(1) manpage.
Try running the pipeline without the final cut to see.
--
Kushal
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