pathchk — Check Path Names

Synopsis

/usr/bin/pathchk [-p] path... 

Description

The pathchk command checks that one or more path names are valid (that is, they could be used to access or create a file without causing syntax errors) and that they are portable (that is, no file-name truncation results). More extensive portability checks are provided by the -p option.

By default, pathchk checks each component of each path operand based on the underlying file system. A diagnostic is written for each path operand that:

  • Is longer than PATH_MAX bytes.

  • Contains any component longer than NAME_MAX bytes in its containing directory.

  • Contains any component in a directory that is not searchable.

  • Contains any character in any component that is not valid in ...

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