namei

follow a pathname until a terminal point is found

namei [options] pathname…

For pathnames including symlinks, files, directories, …), follows each until an endpoint is found (a file, a directory, a device node, etc).

For a symbolic link, it shows the link, and starts following it, indenting the output to show the context.

To identify the file type found: f the pathname currently being resolved
d directory
l symbolic link (both the link and its contents are output)
s socket
b block device
c character device
p FIFO (named pipe)
- regular file
? an error

Outputs a message when the maximum number of symbolic links this system can have has been exceeded.

OPTIONS

`-l --long`	Use the long listing format (same as -m -o -v). lis \|
`-l --long`	Use the long listing form 36b/c/pgrmrs > namei www/docs/namei.1.html # default f: www/docs/namei.1.html l www -> public_html d public_html d docs - namei.1.html 36b/c/pgrmrs > namei public_html/docs/namei.1.html f: public_html/docs/namei.1.html d public_html docs - namei.1.html 36b/c/pgrmrs > namei -l public_html/docs/namei.1.html f: public_html/docs/namei.1.html drwxr-xr-xrwss.com pgrmrs public_html drwxr-xr-xrwss.com pgrmrs docs namei -m public_html/docs/namei.1.html f: public_html/docs/namei.1.html drwxr-xr-x public_html drwxr-xr-x docs -rw-r--r-- namei.1.html 36b/c/pgrmrs > namei -o public_html/docs/namei.1.html f: public_html/docs/namei.1.html drwss.com pgrmrs public_html drwss.com pgrmrs docs -rwss.com pgrmrs namei.1.html namei -x public_html/docs/namei.1.html f: public_html/docs/namei.1.html d public_html d docs - namei.1.html
`-m --modes`	Show the mode in the style of ls, for example ,code>rwxr-xr-x'.
`-o --owners`	Show owner and group
`-v --vertical`	Vertically align the modes and owners.
`-n --nosymlinks`	No symlinks are followed .
`-x --mountpoints`	Show mountpoint directories with a <,b>D' rather than a 'd'.
`-h --help`	Output help text and exit.
--version	Output version information and exit.

useful for finding "too many levels of symbolic links" problems.

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>..

AVAILABILITY