apt-config

APT Configuration Query program

List all APT (and related) configuration options and their values.

apt-config dump

List regular expressions used to match packages to be ignored by apt-get(8)'s

autoremove functionality. Assumes ; or some other undesired character

will be at the end of the string.

apt-config dump | awk '/^APT::NeverAutoRemove::/ {print(substr($2, 0, length($2) - 1))}'