namei Command Examples
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: https://manned.org/namei.
- 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}}