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namei

NAME

namei - follow a pathname until a terminal point is found

SYNOPSIS

namei [-mx] pathname [ 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
     - = 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

-x

Show mount point directories with a 'D', rather than a 'd'.

-m

Show the mode bits of each file type in the style of ls(1), for example 'rwxr-xr-x'.

AUTHOR

Roger Southwick (rogers@amadeus.wr.tek.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/.