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| author | Karel Zak | 2008-10-30 10:19:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2008-11-13 23:25:46 +0100 |
| commit | c84a633a92f534452a0b79bc6f909d0f2e1c17d5 (patch) | |
| tree | b8970305fc62890a19637a81c2962bbfe348138c /misc-utils/namei.1 | |
| parent | fdisk: support +cylinder notation (diff) | |
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namei: new re-written version
This new version:
* not based on chdir()
* implemented without recursion (does not depend on stack size)
* list of directories is stored in allocated memory (the code is
extendable with new functionality (e.g. show usernames, groupnames,
selunux contexts, ...).
* supports long command line options
* adds a new command line option:
-n, --nosymlinks don't follow symlinks
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils/namei.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/namei.1 | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/namei.1 b/misc-utils/namei.1 index 394eb6dff..e35f870b0 100644 --- a/misc-utils/namei.1 +++ b/misc-utils/namei.1 @@ -5,10 +5,7 @@ .SH NAME namei - follow a pathname until a terminal point is found .SH SYNOPSIS -.B namei -.I [-mx] -.I pathname -.I "[ pathname ... ]" +\fBnamei\fR [\fIoptions\fR] \fIpathname\fR [\fIpathname\fR ...] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Namei uses its arguments as pathnames to any type @@ -42,15 +39,18 @@ outputs a the following characters to identify the file types found: prints an informative message when the maximum number of symbolic links this system can have has been exceeded. .SH OPTIONS -.TP 8 -.B -x +.IP "\fB\-x, \-\-mountpoints\fP" Show mount point directories with a 'D', rather than a 'd'. -.TP 8 -.B -m +.IP "\fB\-m, \-\-modes\fP" Show the mode bits of each file type in the style of ls(1), for example 'rwxr-xr-x'. +.IP "\fB\-n, \-\-nosymlinks\fP" +Don't follow symlinks. .SH AUTHOR -Roger Southwick (rogers@amadeus.wr.tek.com) +The original +.B namei +program was written by Roger Southwick <rogers@amadeus.wr.tek.com>. +The program was re-written by Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>. .SH BUGS To be discovered. .SH "SEE ALSO" |