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One-liner to remov all residual config packages in Ubuntu
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remove_residual_config.sh
# Remove all the packages with residual configuration.
# http://stuzhao.blogspot.com/2012/07/removing-all-residual-config-packages.html
sudo apt-get remove --purge `dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | awk '{print $2}'`
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