1.\" Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 Chuck Rouillard 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote 13.\" products derived from this software without specific prior written 14.\" permission. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS 17.\" OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 18.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY 20.\" DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/pathchk/pathchk.1 207485 2010-05-01 22:10:45Z jilles $ 29.\" 30.Dd June 17, 2016 31.Dt PATHCHK 1 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm pathchk 35.Nd check pathnames 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm 38.Op Fl pP 39.Ar pathname ... 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41The 42.Nm 43utility checks whether each of the specified 44.Ar pathname 45arguments is valid or portable. 46.Pp 47A diagnostic message is written for each argument that: 48.Bl -bullet 49.It 50Is longer than 51.Dv PATH_MAX 52bytes. 53.It 54Contains any component longer than 55.Dv NAME_MAX 56bytes. 57(The value of 58.Dv NAME_MAX 59depends on the underlying file system.) 60.It 61Contains a directory component that is not searchable. 62.El 63.Pp 64It is not considered an error if a 65.Ar pathname 66argument contains a nonexistent component as long as a component by that 67name could be created. 68.Pp 69The options are as follows: 70.Bl -tag -width indent 71.It Fl p 72Perform portability checks on the specified 73.Ar pathname 74arguments. 75Diagnostic messages will be written for each argument that: 76.Bl -bullet 77.It 78Is longer than 79.Dv _POSIX_PATH_MAX 80.Pq 255 81bytes. 82.It 83Contains a component longer than 84.Dv _POSIX_NAME_MAX 85.Pq 14 86bytes. 87.It 88Contains any character not in the portable filename character set (that is, 89alphanumeric characters, 90.Ql \&. , 91.Ql \&- 92and 93.Ql _ ) . 94No component may start with the hyphen 95.Pq Ql \&- 96character. 97.El 98.It Fl P 99In addition to the default or 100.Fl p 101checks, write a diagnostic for each argument that: 102.Bl -bullet 103.It 104Is empty. 105.It 106Contains a component that starts with a hyphen. 107.El 108.El 109.Sh EXIT STATUS 110.Ex -std 111.Sh EXAMPLES 112Check whether the names of files in the current directory are portable to 113other 114.Tn POSIX 115systems: 116.Pp 117.Dl "find . -exec pathchk -p -- {} +" 118.Sh SEE ALSO 119.Xr getconf 1 , 120.Xr pathconf 2 , 121.Xr stat 2 122.Sh STANDARDS 123The 124.Nm 125utility conforms to 126.St -p1003.1-2001 . 127.Sh HISTORY 128A 129.Nm 130utility appeared in 131.Fx 5.0 . 132