---
name: "cruft-ng"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "cruft-ng"
version: "0.4.9"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cruft-ng"
---

# cruft-ng(8)

Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files)

## NAME

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

## SYNOPSIS

**cruft-ng \[ FILE \]**

## DESCRIPTION

**cruft-ng** 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-ng by setting the variable **DEBUG.**

## SEE ALSO

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

## AUTHOR

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