pathchk

Options

-p

pathchk-help-posix

-P

pathchk-help-posix-special

--portability

pathchk-help-portability

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 under the CC BY 4.0 License.

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