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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.
namei {path/to/a} {path/to/b} {path/to/c}
namei --long {path/to/a} {path/to/b} {path/to/c}
namei --modes {path/to/a} {path/to/b} {path/to/c}
namei --owners {path/to/a} {path/to/b} {path/to/c}
namei --nosymlinks {path/to/a} {path/to/b} {path/to/c}
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