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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | BUGS | AUTHORS | SEE ALSO | REPORTING BUGS | AVAILABILITY |
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NAMEI(1) User Commands NAMEI(1)
namei - follow a pathname until a terminal point is found
namei [options] pathname...
namei interprets 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.
-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'.
-n, --nosymlinks
Don’t follow symlinks.
-o, --owners
Show owner and group name of each file.
-v, --vertical
Vertically align the modes and owners.
-x, --mountpoints
Show mountpoint directories with a 'D' rather than a 'd'.
-Z, --context
Show security context of the file or "?" if not available.
The support for security contexts is optional and does not
have to be compiled to the namei binary.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
Print version and exit.
To be discovered.
The original namei program was written by Roger Southwick
<rogers@amadeus.wr.tek.com>.
The program was rewritten by Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>.
ls(1), stat(1), symlink(7)
For bug reports, use the issue tracker at
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.
The namei command is part of the util-linux package which can be
downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive
<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>. This page
is part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux
utilities) project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩. If you have
a bug report for this manual page, send it to
util-linux@vger.kernel.org. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git⟩ on
2024-06-14. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
that was found in the repository was 2024-06-10.) If you discover
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Pages that refer to this page: symlink(2), symlink(7)
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