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NAMEI(1)                                            User Commands                                            NAMEI(1)



NAME
       namei - follow a pathname until a terminal point is found

SYNOPSIS
       namei [options] 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 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.

AUTHOR
       The original namei program was written by Roger Southwick <[email protected]>.



util-linux                                            June 2011                                              NAMEI(1)