Have you tried wildcards?  For example, this worked for me, without
needing to pipe to grep and sed:

*    sudo apt list --installed *xfce**

I haven't tried removing with a wildcard, but installing was worked before.


On 3/28/25 08:00, dng-request@??? wrote:
> Subject: [DNG] Remove xfce associated stuff?
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>    So I installed icewm and "removed" xfce4.  I tried both purge and
> autoremove, but there's still a bunch of xcfe4 stuff hanging around.  I
> could remove them one at a time, but there has got to be better way...
> I hope?

>
> root@dev3:~# apt list --installed | grep xfce | sed "s/\/.*//"
>
> WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
>
> libxfce4panel-2.0-4
> libxfce4ui-2-0
> libxfce4ui-common
> libxfce4util-bin
> libxfce4util-common
> libxfce4util7

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