CRUFT-NG(8)

💖 CRUFT-NG 💖

ok so this is the manual page for cruft-ng, and it lives in section 8 of the manual — that's the System Manager's Manual, bestie, the big-kid section 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

cruft-ng — check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files) 🕵️♀️🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cruft-ng [ FILE ]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one optional argument, no drama 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

ok so here's the tea ☕ cruft-ng rolls up to the Debian packaging system's database and goes 👀 at what should be on your system, then compares that against the files that are actually there, fr fr, and hands you back a summary of the differences ✨

it's giving "who are you and why are you in my house" energy but for files. iconic. no cap 🔥

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• FILE — if you hand it a file, cruft-ng will analyze this single file and print the matching package(s) name(s) 🎯 like, "hey bestie, this file belongs to this package."

and if you give it no option at all? it just analyzes the whole system 💀 all of it. every file. main character energy tbh 👑

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🧚

• DEBUG — set this variable and you can get some debugging information out of cruft-ng 🐛🔍 it's the "tell me ur secrets" switch iykyk

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Documentation from the original cruft package: /usr/share/doc/cruft-common/README.gz 📖✨

like, go read it if you want the deep lore, it's literally right there 🫶

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👑 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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ok that's the whole page bestie, go forth and find ur cruft 🦋✨

and yeah, the footer just says CRUFT-NG(8) — that's the system manager's manual tag, that's the whole sign-off, periodt 💅💖