namei
follow a pathname until a terminal point is found
see also :
ls - stat
Synopsis
namei
[options] pathname...
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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 an endpoint is found (a
file, a directory, a device node, etc). If it finds a
symbolic link, it shows the link, and starts following it,
indenting the output to show the context.
This program is
useful for finding "too many levels of symbolic
links" problems.
For each line
of output, namei uses the following characters 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 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 the 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
Vertically align the modes and
owners.
-x,
--mountpoints
Show mountpoint directories
with a ’D’ rather than a ’d’.
-h,
--help
Output help text and exit.
-V,
--version
Output version information and
exit.
availability
The namei command is part of the util-linux package and is
available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
bugs
To be
discovered.
see also
ls ,
stat
author
The original
namei program was written by Roger Southwick
<rogers[:at:]amadeus.wr.tek[:dot:]com>.
The program was
re-written by Karel Zak <kzak[:at:]redhat[:dot:]com>.