SOAPYSDRUTIL(1)

📦 version 0.8.1, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, debian bookworm, debian trixie, epel 10, epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

SoapySDRUtil is the one that lets you query and change module information of SoapySDR. bestie, this is the manual name, so you're already in the right place 💖

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

SoapySDRUtil [OPTIONS]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so SoapySDRUtil is a command line app that gives you basic diagnostic utility for SoapySDR ✨ It prints your installation info, lists the available modules and discovered devices, and runs tests on devices that have been instantiated. literally the vibe check tool 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --info — prints general info on the library, lists all the hardware support modules it found, and shows the available factories 🔥
  • --find[="SPEC"] — discovers available devices. If you give it a SPEC, it only shows the ones that match. ngl, if no matching devices show up, it exits with exit status 1 💀
  • --make[="SPEC"] — opens and closes a device matching SPEC, if that's possible 🦋 If you don't give a SPEC, it grabs the first discovered device and opens that one.
  • --probe[="SPEC"] — shows detailed info on all devices, or only the ones matching SPEC if you give one 🔍
  • --check=NAME — checks whether a driver module named NAME is present, and prints the result 🫶 If it isn't found, it exits with exit status 1.

🦋 HOMEPAGE 🦋

SoapySDRUtil is part of the SoapySDR project. it's giving family 🌈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The SoapySDR library, including SoapySDRUtil, was written mostly by Josh Blum. iconic work, literally ⭐

💜 that's the whole tea, bestie! this page is from SoapySDR 0.5.4, dated 2016-10-28, and it's SOAPYSDRUTIL(1) forever 💜🎀🌸

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