NAME¶

pathchk - Check whether file names are valid or portable

SYNOPSIS¶

pathchk [-p ] [-P ] [--portability] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [path]

DESCRIPTION¶

Check whether file names are valid or portable

OPTIONS¶

-p

check for most POSIX systems

-P

check for empty names and leading "-"

--portability

check for all POSIX systems (equivalent to -p -P)

-h, --help

Print help

-V, --version

Print version

VERSION¶

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

EXAMPLES¶

Check pathnames for validity in the current system:

pathchk path1 path2 ...

Check pathnames for validity on a wider range of POSIX compliant systems:

pathchk -p path1 path2 ...

Check pathnames for validity on all POSIX compliant systems:

pathchk [-p -P|--portability] path1 path2 ...

Only check for empty pathnames or leading dashes (-):

pathchk -P path1 path2 ...

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.