Acho que namei
utility é exatamente o que você quer.
De man namei
:
namei uses its arguments as pathnames to any type of Unix file (symlinks, files,
directories, and so forth). namei then follows each pathname until an endpoint is
found (a file, a directory, a device node, etc). If it finds a symbolic link, it
shows the link, and starts following it, indenting the output to show the context.
This program is useful for finding "too many levels of symbolic links" problems.