NAME
namei - follow a pathname until a terminal point is found
SYNOPSIS
namei [options] 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 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
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/.
