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CRUFT(8) System Manager's Manual CRUFT(8)

NAME

cruft - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files)

SYNOPSIS

cruft [ FILE ]

DESCRIPTION

cruft is a program that goes over the Debian packaging system's database, and compares the contents of that with the files actually on your system, and produces a summary of the differences.

OPTIONS

If a file is provided, cruft-ng will analyze this single file and print matching package(s) name(s).
Without any option, cruft-ng will analyze the whole system.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

It is possible to get some debugging information from cruft by setting the variable DEBUG.

SEE ALSO

Documentation from original cruft package: https://github.com/a-detiste/cruft/blob/master/README

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Alexandre Detiste <alexandre@detiste.be>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).