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Anmol-Singh-Jaggi authored and owenvoke committed Oct 12, 2018
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# 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.
- 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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