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From: James E Keenan <jkeen@verizon.net>
Subject: Is there a namei utility in FreeBSD?
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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:

#####
$ 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