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+#!/bin/sh
+# Treewide grep for references to files under Documentation, and report
+# non-existing files in stderr.
+
+for f in $(git ls-files); do
+        for ref in $(grep -ho "Documentation/[A-Za-z0-9_.,~/*+-]*" "$f"); do
+                # presume trailing . and , are not part of the name
+                ref=${ref%%[.,]}
+
+                # use ls to handle wildcards
+                if ! ls $ref >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+                        echo "$f: $ref" >&2
+                fi
+        done
+done