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Remove old kernels in Ubuntu

By Igor Moiseev · · 1 min read ·

To remove old linux kernels and leave the current one

dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge

Be aware, the command uses uname -r to get the current kernel.