namei

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.

More information.

• 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 --long {path/to/a} {path/to/b} {path/to/c}

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

namei --modes {path/to/a} {path/to/b} {path/to/c}

• Show owner and group name of each file:

namei --owners {path/to/a} {path/to/b} {path/to/c}

• Don't follow symlinks while resolving:

namei --nosymlinks {path/to/a} {path/to/b} {path/to/c}

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