#!/bin/bash
# there's probably an easier way to do this in Debian, already
# but since I don't know that way, this will purge the configuration
# files of packages that were removed but left configs laying around

cols=${COLUMNS}
export COLUMNS=180
test=$(dpkg -l | awk '{if ($1=="rc"){print $2}}')
for n in ${test}
	do dpkg --purge ${n}
done
export COLUMNS=${cols}