namei

linux

Follows a pathname (which can be a symbolic link) until a terminal point is found (a file/directory/char device etc). This program is useful for finding "too many levels of symbolic links" problems.

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Options (4)

-l, --longboolean

Display the results in a long-listing format

Example: namei {{[-l|--long]}} {{path/to/a}} {{path/to/b}} {{path/to/c}}

-m, --modesboolean

Show the mode bits of each file type in the style of `ls`

Example: namei {{[-m|--modes]}} {{path/to/a}} {{path/to/b}} {{path/to/c}}

-o, --ownersboolean

Show owner and group name of each file

Example: namei {{[-o|--owners]}} {{path/to/a}} {{path/to/b}} {{path/to/c}}

-n, --nosymlinksboolean

Don't follow symlinks while resolving

Example: namei {{[-n|--nosymlinks]}} {{path/to/a}} {{path/to/b}} {{path/to/c}}

Examples (5)

Resolve the pathnames specified as the argument parameters

namei path/to/a path/to/b path/to/c

Display the results in a long-listing format

namei [-l|--long] path/to/a path/to/b path/to/c

Show the mode bits of each file type in the style of `ls`

namei [-m|--modes] path/to/a path/to/b path/to/c

Show owner and group name of each file

namei [-o|--owners] path/to/a path/to/b path/to/c

Don't follow symlinks while resolving

namei [-n|--nosymlinks] path/to/a path/to/b path/to/c

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