PATHCHK(1L)

NAME
pathchk - check whether pathnames are valid or portable

SYNOPSIS
pathchk [-p] [--portability] path...

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the GNU version of pathchk. For each path, pathchk prints a message if any of these conditions are false:
• all existing directories in path have search (execute) permission
• the length of path <= its filesystem's maximum path length
• the length of each existing directory in path <= its filesystem's maximum file name legnth

The exit status is:
0 if all path names passed all of the tests,
1 otherwise.

  OPTIONS

-p, --portability
    Instead of performing length checks on the underlying filesystem, test the length of the pathname and its components against the POSIX.1 minimum limits for portability. Also check that the pathname contains no characters not in the portable filename character set.

The long-named options can be introduced with `+' as well as `--', for compatibility with previous releases. Eventually support for `+' will be removed, because it is incompatible with the POSIX.2 standard.