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NAMECHECK(1)

📛 NAME

namecheck - Check project names are not already taken.

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🔍 Check a single project name	namecheck myproject	Test if myproject is available on major hosting sites.
📋 Check multiple names sequentially	namecheck name1 name2 name3	Run checks for several project names at once.
⚙️ Use a custom pattern file	namecheck --rcfile ~/.mycheckrc myproject	Override default patterns with a personal configuration file.

ℹ️ ABOUT

This is a simple tool to automate the testing of project names at the most common Open Source / Free Software hosting environments.

Each new project requires a name, and those names are ideally unique. To come up with names is hard, and testing to ensure they're not already in use is time-consuming - unless you have a tool such as this one.

⚙️ CUSTOMIZATION

The script, as is, contains a list of sites, and patterns, to test against.

If those patterns aren't sufficient then you may create your own additions and add them to the script. If you wish to have your own version of the patterns you may save them into the file ~/.namecheckrc.

👤 AUTHOR

Steve -- http://www.steve.org.uk/

📄 LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2008 by Steve Kemp. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Debian Utilities 2026-03-04 NAMECHECK(1)

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