PATHCHK(1) | General Commands Manual | PATHCHK(1) |
pathchk
— check
pathnames
pathchk |
[-pP ] pathname ... |
The pathchk
utility checks whether each of
the specified pathname arguments is valid or
portable.
A diagnostic message is written for each argument that:
PATH_MAX
bytes.NAME_MAX
bytes.
(The value of NAME_MAX
depends on the underlying
file system.)It is not considered an error if a pathname argument contains a nonexistent component as long as a component by that name could be created.
The options are as follows:
-p
_POSIX_PATH_MAX
(255)
bytes._POSIX_NAME_MAX
(14) bytes..
’,
‘-
’ and
‘_
’). No component may start
with the hyphen (‘-
’)
character.-P
-p
checks, write a
diagnostic for each argument that:
The pathchk
utility exits 0 on
success, and >0 if an error occurs.
Check whether the names of files in the current directory are portable to other POSIX systems:
find . -exec pathchk -p -- {}
+
The pathchk
utility conforms to
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”).
A pathchk
utility appeared in
FreeBSD 5.0.
May 1, 2010 | macOS 14.6 |