avahi-browse(1)

💅 avahi-browse — the manual page, bestie edition

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✨ NAME ✨

avahi-browse — browse for mDNS/DNS-SD services using the Avahi daemon 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

avahi-browse [options] service-type

avahi-browse [options] --all

avahi-browse [options] --browse-domains

avahi-browse [options] --dump-db

avahi-browse-domains [options]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Browse for mDNS/DNS-SD network services and browsing domains using the Avahi daemon. that's the whole vibe. you're basically snooping the LAN (respectfully) to see what services are out there being their little main character selves ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay bestie, here's the important part. you either drop a DNS-SD service type (like _http._tcp) on the command line to browse for it, or you hit -a to browse for literally all the service types. and listen — the output is giving ✨ live feed ✨:

• things that show up on the network get prefixed with +
• things that dip out get prefixed with -
• and if you passed --resolve, the ones that get resolved are prefixed with =

so cute, so readable.

• -a | --all — browse for every service type registered on the LAN, not just the one lonely type you put on the command line. go big, go all of them 💅
• -D | --browse-domains — browse for browsing domains instead of services. and heads up: avahi-browse-domains is literally equivalent to avahi-browse --browse-domains — same energy, shorter typing 🫶
• -d | --domain= DOMAIN — browse in the domain you specify. if you omit it, avahi-browse just browses in the default browsing domain (which is usually local). defaults are for when you can't decide bestie 😌
• -v | --verbose — enable verbose mode. more words. more lore. 📖
• -t | --terminate — bounce out after dumping a more or less complete list. "more or less" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there and we respect it 🙈
• -c | --cache — bounce out after dumping all the entries available in the cache. speedrun edition 🔥
• -l | --ignore-local — ignore local services, show only the remote ones. no hometown bias ✈️
• -r | --resolve — automatically resolve the services it finds. you don't even have to ask, it just does it. iconic 👑
• -f | --no-fail — don't fail if the daemon isn't found running. instead it just waits until it shows up, like a loyal bestie outside the changing room. and if it disconnects, it tries to reconnect. patience = immaculate 🧘‍♀️
• -p | --parsable — make the output easily parsable so you can use it in scripts. when it's on, fields are separated by semicolons (;) and service names get escaped. highly recommend pairing this with --no-db-lookup, fr fr 🤝
• -k | --no-db-lookup — don't look up service types in the service type database. no receipts needed 💀
• -b | --dump-db — dump the service type database (and yes, it can be combined with -k) 🗄️
• -h | --help — show help. the classic 🆘
• -V | --version — show version information. numbers, but make it ✨info✨

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

the Avahi Developers — <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org> 💌 and Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/ — go say hi, they're the blueprint 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• avahi-publish(1)
• avahi-resolve(1)
• avahi-daemon(8)

the whole squad. go read them too, iykyk 💜

💬 COMMENTS 💬

this man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth. shoutout to Oliver, the real MVP 🏆

and that's the page bestie!! 🎉 everything you need, nothing you don't. now go browse some services and slay 💅✨

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