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.