NAME
    namei - follow a pathname until a terminal point is found

SYNOPSIS
    namei [-mx] pathname [ pathname ... ]

DESCRIPTION
    Namei uses its  arguments as pathnames to any type of Unix file (sym-
    links, 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 iden-
    tify 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.

OPTIONS
    -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'.

AUTHOR
    Roger Southwick (rogers@amadeus.wr.tek.com)

BUGS
    To be discovered.

CAVEATS
    Namei will follow an infinite loop of symbolic links forever. To
    escape, use SIGINT (usually ^C).

SEE ALSO
   ls(1),stat(1)