pathchk (1) Linux Manual Page

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

Author

Written by Paul Eggert, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

Reporting Bugs

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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Copyright

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

See Also

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/pathchk>
or available locally via: info ‘(coreutils) pathchk invocation’