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Name

pathchk - check whether file names are valid or portable

Synopsis

pathchk [OPTION]... NAME...

Description

Diagnose unportable constructs in NAME.

-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 bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

Copyright

Copyright © 2008 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.


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