PATHCHK(1) User Commands PATHCHK(1)
NAME
pathchk - check whether file names are valid or portable
SYNOPSIS
pathchk [OPTION]... NAME...
DESCRIPTION
Diagnose invalid or unportable file names.
-p check for most POSIX systems
-P check for empty names and leading "-"
--portability
check for all POSIX systems (equivalent to -p -P)
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report pathchk translation bugs to
<http://translationproject.org/team/>
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Eggert, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent per‐
mitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for pathchk is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and pathchk programs are
properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'pathchk invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 November 2016 PATHCHK(1)
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