Developer's Daily | Unix by Example |
main | java | perl | unix | dev directory | web log |
namei - follow a pathname until a terminal point is found |
namei [-mx] pathname [ pathname ... ] |
Namei uses its arguments as pathnames to any type of Unix file (symlinks, files, directories, and so forth). Namei then follows each pathname until a terminal point is found (a file, directory, char device, etc). If it finds a symbolic link, we show the link, and start following it, indenting the output to show the context. This program is useful for finding a "too many levels of symbolic links" problems. For each line output, namei outputs a the following characters to identify the file types found: f: = the pathname we are currently trying to resolve d = directory l = symbolic link (both the link and it’s contents are output) s = socket b = block device c = character device - = regular file ? = an error of some kind Namei prints an informative message when the maximum number of symbolic links this system can have has been exceeded. |
-x |
Show mount point directories with a ’D’, rather than a ’d’. |
||
-m |
Show the mode bits of each file type in the style of ls(1), for example ’rwxr-xr-x’. |
Roger Southwick (rogers@amadeus.wr.tek.com) |
To be discovered. |
Namei will follow an infinite loop of symbolic links forever. To escape, use SIGINT (usually ^C). |
ls(1), stat(1) |