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.TH NAMEI 1 "Local"
.SH NAME
namei - follow a pathname until a terminal point is found
.SH SYNOPSIS
-\fBnamei\fR [\fIoptions\fR] \fIpathname\fR [\fIpathname\fR ...]
+.B fBnamei
+.RI [ options ]
+.IR pathname ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
-.I Namei
+.B Namei
uses its arguments as pathnames to any type
-of Unix file (symlinks, files, directories, and so forth).
-.I Namei
-then follows each pathname until a terminal
+of Unix file (symlinks, files, directories, and so forth).
+.B 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.
symbolic links" problems.
.PP
For each line output,
-.I namei
+.B namei
outputs a the following characters to identify the file types found:
.LP
.nf
? = an error of some kind
.fi
.PP
-.I Namei
+.B Namei
prints an informative message when
the maximum number of symbolic links this system can have has been exceeded.
.SH OPTIONS
.SH BUGS
To be discovered.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-ls(1), stat(1)
+.BR ls (1),
+.BR stat (1)
.SH AVAILABILITY
The namei command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.