1NAMEI(1) General Commands Manual NAMEI(1)
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6 namei - follow a pathname until a terminal point is found
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9 namei [options] pathname...
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12 Namei uses its arguments as pathnames to any type of Unix file (sym‐
13 links, files, directories, and so forth). Namei then follows each
14 pathname until a terminal point is found (a file, directory, char
15 device, etc). If it finds a symbolic link, we show the link, and start
16 following it, indenting the output to show the context.
17 This program is useful for finding a "too many levels of symbolic
19 links" problems.
20 For each line output, namei outputs a the following characters to iden‐
22 tify the file types found:
23 f: = the pathname we are currently trying to resolve
25 d = directory
26 l = symbolic link (both the link and it's contents are output)
27 s = socket
28 b = block device
29 c = character device
30 p = FIFO (named pipe)
31 - = regular file
32 ? = an error of some kind
33 Namei prints an informative message when the maximum number of symbolic
35 links this system can have has been exceeded.
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38 -l, --long
39 Use a long listing format (same as -m -o -v).
40 -m, --modes
42 Show the mode bits of each file type in the style of ls(1), for
43 example 'rwxr-xr-x'.
44 -o, --owners
46 Show owner and group name of each file.
47 -n, --nosymlinks
49 Don't follow symlinks.
50 -v, --vertical
52 Vertical align of modes and owners.
53 -x, --mountpoints
55 Show mount point directories with a 'D', rather than a 'd'.
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58 The original namei program was written by Roger Southwick
59 <rogers@amadeus.wr.tek.com>.
60 The program was re-written by Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>.
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70 The namei command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available
71 from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
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