pathchk(1)

pathchk1

Check whether file names are valid or portable

Usage

pathchk [OPTION] ... NAME ...

Overview

Diagnose invalid or non-portable 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

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 15 times.

  1. 1.1–1.2
  2. 1.3–2.1
  3. 2.2
  4. 3.0
  5. 3.1
  6. 4.0
  7. 5.0
  8. 6.0
  9. 7
  10. 8
  11. 9
  12. 10
  13. 11
  14. 12
  15. 13
  16. Arch

-P since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

Author

Written by Paul Eggert, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to: <[email protected]>.
Report any translation bugs to: <https://translationproject.org/team/>.
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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From coreutils 9.12-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.