1NAMEI(1)                    General Commands Manual                   NAMEI(1)
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NAME

6       namei - follow a pathname until a terminal point is found
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SYNOPSIS

9       namei [-mx] pathname [ pathname ... ]
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DESCRIPTION

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.
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18       This  program  is  useful  for  finding  a "too many levels of symbolic
19       links" problems.
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21       For each line output, namei outputs a the following characters to iden‐
22       tify the file types found:
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24          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           - = regular file
31           ? = an error of some kind
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33       Namei prints an informative message when the maximum number of symbolic
34       links this system can have has been exceeded.
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OPTIONS

37       -x      Show mount point directories with a 'D', rather than a 'd'.
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39       -m      Show the mode bits of each file type in the style of ls(1), for
40               example 'rwxr-xr-x'.
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AUTHOR

43       Roger Southwick  (rogers@amadeus.wr.tek.com)
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BUGS

46       To be discovered.
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SEE ALSO

49       ls(1), stat(1)
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