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namei

Follow a pathname (which can be a symbolic link) until a terminal point is found (a file/directory/char device etc.). tldr-pages

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Follow 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.

Resolve the pathnames specified as the argument parameters

namei path/to/a path/to/b path/to/cIdentify

Display the results in a long-listing format

namei --long path/to/a path/to/b path/to/cIdentify

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

namei --modes path/to/a path/to/b path/to/cIdentify

Show owner and group name of each file

namei --owners path/to/a path/to/b path/to/cIdentify

Don't follow symlinks while resolving

namei --nosymlinks path/to/a path/to/b path/to/cIdentify