Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 09:12:14 -0500 From: James E Keenan <jkeen@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is there a namei utility in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <984464e3-8f4e-d15f-00a8-e341a81d7ab5@verizon.net>
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In Linux, there is a userland utility 'namei' which enables a user to
"follow a pathname until a terminal point is found". Invoking it on,
say, a symlink produces output like this:
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$ namei /usr/bin/bundledoc
f: /usr/bin/bundledoc
d /
d usr
d bin
l bundledoc -> ../share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/bundledoc/bundledoc
d ..
d share
d texlive
d texmf-dist
d scripts
d bundledoc
- bundledoc
#####
Is there an equivalent utility in FreeBSD? In 10.3 and 11.0, I could
only find namei in man 9, which is C-level facility, not an executable
utility.
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
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