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/>
Report pathchk translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2010 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 'pathchk invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.