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NAME

       dash-search - match arguments against cruft filter patterns

SYNOPSIS

       dash-search [ file ] [ ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       dash-search   Reads   files   in   directories  /usr/lib/cruft/filters-
       broken_symlinks /usr/lib/cruft/filters-frbn /usr/lib/cruft/filters-miss
       and   /usr/lib/cruft/filters-unex  and  tries  to  match  each  command
       argument in turn  against  the  patterns  in  those  files,  using  the
       shellexp(3)  funcition.  Any  argument  which  matches  is  printed  on
       standard output, prefixed with the name of the file which contained the
       pattern which it matched.

BUGS

       Same as shellexp(3).

SEE ALSO

       shellexp(3), cruft(8).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>, for the
       Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                               October 17, 2007