SYNOPSIS

       pathchk [-p] name ...

DESCRIPTION

       The pathchk command verifies the validity or portability of path names.
       For each name given, it is checked that each of the intermediate direc-
       tories  is  searchable or could be created, that none of its components
       is longer than NAME_MAX, and that the whole name  is  not  longer  than
       PATH_MAX.

       With  the -p option, the checks are performed using _POSIX_NAME_MAX and
       _POSIX_PATH_MAX, and each character of a component of name must  be  in
       the  portable  character  set  (i.e. alphanumerics, dot `.', underscore
       `_', and minus sign `-').  The check for local searchability  is  omit-
       ted.

       If  any  violation  of these rules is detected, pathchk prints an error
       message and exits with failure.



Heirloom Toolchest                  7/17/05                         PATHCHK(1)