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How to remove disabled (unused) snap packages with a single line of command?

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When I run snap list --all command it shows all the installed versions of snap packages.

Name                  Version       Rev   Tracking  Developer     Notes

atom                  1.26.1        150   stable    snapcrafters  classic

brave                 v0.22.669dev  23    stable    brave         -

core                  16-2.32.6     4571  stable    canonical     core

core                  16-2.32.5     4486  stable    canonical     core,disabled

firefox               59.0.2-1      71    stable    mozilla       disabled

firefox               60.0-2        85    stable    mozilla       -

gimp                  2.10.0        38    stable    snapcrafters  disabled

gimp                  2.10.0        39    stable    snapcrafters  -

gimp                  2.8.22        30    stable    snapcrafters  disabled

gnome-3-26-1604       3.26.0        64    stable/…  canonical     -

gnome-3-26-1604       3.26.0        62    stable/…  canonical     disabled

gnome-characters      3.28.0        86    stable/…  canonical     -

gnome-characters      3.26.2        69    stable/…  canonical     disabled

gnome-logs            3.26.2        25    stable/…  canonical     disabled

gnome-logs            3.28.0        31    stable/…  canonical     -

gnome-system-monitor  3.26.0        36    stable/…  canonical     disabled

gnome-system-monitor  3.26.0        39    stable/…  canonical     -

libreoffice           6.0.3.2       59    stable    canonical     disabled

libreoffice           6.0.4.2       63    stable    canonical     -

Now there are so many disabled packages there which are no longer used. So I want to remove those packages. Here the command is snap remove gnome-3-26-1604 --revision=62 . Now I have to do it for all the revisions and for all the packages one by one. Is there any command which will remove the disabled or unused snap packages with single line of command?

Thanks in advance...

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answered 3 Years ago ipentainer · Accepted Answer

I'll look into adding this sometime soon (as a 20% thing). Meanwhile, you could drop

#!/bin/sh

set -eu



LANG=C snap list --all | awk '/disabled/{print $1, $3}' |

    while read snapname revision; do

        snap remove "$snapname" --revision="$revision"

    done

into a shell script and run that.