Is there a namei utility in FreeBSD?

[James E Keenan]

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

[Anton Yuzhaninov]

Post by James E Keenan
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,

If you need to find a target of symlink (or symlink chain) you can use
realpath(1).

[James E Keenan]

Post by Anton Yuzhaninov

Post by James E Keenan
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,

If you need to find a target of symlink (or symlink chain) you can use
realpath(1).

Thanks for mentioning that. However, while the example I gave was that
of a symlink, and while both namei and realpath are good for displaying
information about symlinks, my central question was whether there was an
equivalent to namei in FreeBSD. namei identifies the nature of each
component in the resolved path; realpath does not.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

[Trond Endrestøl]

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