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.

FILES

       A user can tune execution by providing extra configuration files:

       /etc/cruft/ignore
              Do not  process  paths  listed  in  this  file,  this  can  speed-up  matching.   Example  values:
              /var/schroot/, /var/www/ ...  This will override the default /usr/share/cruft/ignore

       /etc/cruft/filters/*
              Rules  (glob-patterns)  similar  that  are  similar  to  those  built-in  into cruft package.  The
              uppercase files are always processed, the lowercase ones are processed when  matching  package  is
              installed.

       /etc/cruft/explain/*
              Shell  scripts that will print-out a list of temporary file belonging to a package.  The uppercase
              files are always processed, the lowercase ones are processed when matching package is installed.

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).

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