NAME
namei - follow a pathname until a terminal point is found
SYNOPSIS
namei [options] pathname...
DESCRIPTION
Namei uses its arguments as pathnames to any type of Unix file
(symlinks, files, directories, and so forth). Namei then follows each
pathname until a terminal point is found (a file, directory, char
device, etc). If it finds a symbolic link, we show the link, and start
following it, indenting the output to show the context.
This program is useful for finding a "too many levels of symbolic
links" problems.
For each line output, namei outputs a the following characters to
identify the file types found:
f: = the pathname we are currently trying to resolve
d = directory
l = symbolic link (both the link and it’s contents are output)
s = socket
b = block device
c = character device
p = FIFO (named pipe)
- = regular file
? = an error of some kind
Namei prints an informative message when the maximum number of symbolic
links this system can have has been exceeded.
OPTIONS
-l, --long
Use a long listing format (same as -m -o -v).
-m, --modes
Show the mode bits of each file type in the style of ls(1), for
example ’rwxr-xr-x’.
-o, --owners
Show owner and group name of each file.
-n, --nosymlinks
Don’t follow symlinks.
-v, --vertical
Vertical align of modes and owners.
-x, --mountpoints
Show mount point directories with a ’D’, rather than a ’d’.
AUTHOR
The original namei program was written by Roger Southwick
<rogers@amadeus.wr.tek.com>.
The program was re-written by Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>.
BUGS
To be discovered.
SEE ALSO
ls(1), stat(1)
AVAILABILITY
The namei command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available
from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
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