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| author | Peter Breitenlohner | 2009-07-22 11:29:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2009-08-17 12:11:07 +0200 |
| commit | 3eca4291b9d92357de139d91a631c8fae4e7b94d (patch) | |
| tree | 1e14e4291d24eece7f1a43e54843bd41117031f4 /misc-utils/namei.1 | |
| parent | mcookie.1: formatting (diff) | |
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namei.1: formatting
Signed-off-by: Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils/namei.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/namei.1 | 21 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/namei.1 b/misc-utils/namei.1 index d5d0c8aac..f9617dab3 100644 --- a/misc-utils/namei.1 +++ b/misc-utils/namei.1 @@ -1,17 +1,19 @@ -.\" +.\" .\" Version 1.4 of namei .\" .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. @@ -20,7 +22,7 @@ This program is useful for finding a "too many levels of 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 @@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ outputs a the following characters to identify the file types found: ? = 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 @@ -61,7 +63,8 @@ The program was re-written by Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>. .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/. |