On Wed 07 Apr 2021 at 14:02:58 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 08:40:58PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > While I'm a big fan of aptitude's patterns it's also not installed by > > default. For basic uses 'apt' is fine as well and supports globs: > > > > apt list --installed linux-image-4* > > > > apt purge linux-image-4.9.10-?-amd64 > > Remember that you need to quote these globs (at least the special > characters in them), or else one day you *will* get a nasty surprise > when one of them matches a file in your current working directory.
And I'm a big fan of -s with commands like these, so that you know what's going to be changed. Then recall the command and remove the -s. I'm also a big fan of mv -i rather than rm, for similar reasons. Remove the files only when you're sure the system still works without them. Cheers, David.
