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namei - follow a pathname until a terminal point is found
namei
[-mx] pathname [ pathname ... ]
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.
- -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’.
Roger Southwick
(rogers@amadeus.wr.tek.com)
To be discovered.
Namei will follow
an infinite loop of symbolic links forever. To escape, use SIGINT (usually
^C).
ls(1)
, stat(1)
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