PATHCHK
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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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
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Eggert, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report pathchk bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 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 permitted 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 aqpathchk invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.