pathchk

pathchk [OPTION]... NAME...

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)

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 --portability {{path1 path2 …}}

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

pathchk -P {{path1 path2 …}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.