PATHCHK(1)

✨ pathchk(1) — User Commands, bestie edition ✨

okay so this is pathchk from the User Commands girlies, and no cap, it's the little tool that checks your file names before they embarrass you in front of a whole other operating system 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pathchk — check whether file names are valid or portable 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pathchk [OPTION]... NAME...

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Diagnose invalid or non-portable file names. It's giving "vibe check, but for filenames" ✨

• -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 ⭐

not me running pathchk on a filename with a leading -... that's the whole point of -P, bestie, use it 🎀

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Written by Paul Eggert, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering. iconic trio, periodt 👑

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🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

• Report bugs to: <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
• Report any translation bugs to: <https://translationproject.org/team/>.
• GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
• General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. 😭 (fr fr, no warranty, read it and weep)

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/pathchk>
• or available locally via: info '(coreutils) pathchk invocation'

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 this was GNU coreutils 9.12, dated September 2026 — pathchk(1), signing off, ily, go check ur filenames 💖✨🦋