namei

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. More information: https://manned.org/namei.

• Resolve the pathnames specified as the argument parameters:

namei path/to/a path/to/b path/to/c

• Display the results in a long-listing format:

namei --long path/to/a path/to/b path/to/c

• Show the mode bits of each file type in the style of ls:

namei --modes path/to/a path/to/b path/to/c

• Show owner and group name of each file:

namei --owners path/to/a path/to/b path/to/c

• Don’t follow symlinks while resolving:

namei --nosymlinks path/to/a path/to/b path/to/c