filename

filename — The name of a file.

Synopsis

Parents
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filename ::= × ⏵

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional 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 attributes and 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

55 elements contain filename. × ⏵

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

29 elements occur in filename. × ⏵

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.

See Also

Related elements: application, computeroutput, database, envar, hardware, productname, prompt, systemitem, userinput.

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.