filename

filename — The name of a file.

Synopsis

filename ::=

Zero or more of:
- text
- replaceable
- Graphic inlines
  - inlinemediaobject
- Indexing inlines
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
  - abbrev
  - acronym
  - alt
  - anchor
  - annotation
  - biblioref
  - coref
  - date
  - emphasis (db._emphasis)
  - firstterm (db._firstterm)
  - footnote
  - footnoteref
  - foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase)
  - glossterm (db._glossterm)
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
  - inlinemediaobject
  - link
  - olink
  - phrase (db._phrase)
  - quote (db._quote)
  - remark
  - subscript
  - superscript
  - trademark
  - wordasword
  - xref

Attributes

Common linking attributes.

Attributes:

class (enumeration)
- “devicefile”
- “directory”
- “extension”
- “headerfile”
- “libraryfile”
- “partition”
- “symlink”
path

Description

A filename is the name of a file on a local or network disk. It may be a simple name or may include a path or other elements specific to the operating system.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Attributes

Common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

class

Identifies the class of filename

Enumerated values:
“devicefile”	A device
“directory”	A directory
“extension”	A filename extension
“headerfile”	A header file (as for a programming language)
“libraryfile”	A library file
“partition”	A partition (as of a hard disk)
“symlink”	A symbolic link

path

Specifies the path of the filename

Parents

These elements contain filename: bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, computeroutput, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, enumitemdescription, firstterm (db.firstterm), funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), link, literallayout, member, meta (db.meta.content), olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote (db.quote), refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, synopsisinfo, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry, userinput.

Children

The following elements occur in filename: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.

Examples

1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  |<title>Example filename</title>
  | 
  |<para>The symbolic constants for error numbers are defined in
5 |<filename class='headerfile'>errno.h</filename> in
  |<filename class='directory'>/usr/include/sys</filename>.
  |</para>
  | 
  |</article>

The symbolic constants for error numbers are defined in errno.h in /usr/include/sys.