avahi-discover(1)
π avahi-discover(1) β the General Commands Manual glow-up π
okay bestie, gather round, because this is the little tool that lives in your General Commands Manual and it is so much chiller than it sounds π¦
β¨ NAME β¨
avahi-discover β browse for mDNS/DNS-SD services using the Avahi daemon π
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
avahi-discover
that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no args, just run it π
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
avahi-discover pops open a real-time graphical browse list of all the mDNS/DNS-SD network services chillin' on your local LAN, and it gets all that tea straight from the Avahi daemon. β¨
likeβ¦ you run it, and it just shows you everything that's broadcasting itself on the network. live. updating. main character energy for your LAN π₯
π OPTIONS π
okay so, the thing is:
avahi-discovertakes no command line arguments at the moment. β that's not me being lazy, that's literally the spec. zero options. zero flags. it said "I contain multitudes but not arguments" π
π AUTHORS π
the Avahi Developers did this, and you can reach them at avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org π«Ά
Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/ π
β SEE ALSO β
go read those too, iykyk π
π¬ COMMENTS π¬
fun fact no cap: this man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth. iconic of him honestly π
ngl bestie, there's nothing dangerous in here β no deprecations, no undefined behaviour, no scary warnings. just vibes, a GUI, and the Avahi daemon doing its thing π§
and that's the whole page!! this one came out of the Manuals collection in the User section of the manual, and it's giving "short and sweet" πβ¨ bye bestie, go discover some services πΈπ
π¦ where this page comes from
- alpine 3.24: avahi-doc 0.9_rc4-r0 Β· LGPL-2.1-or-later
- debian bookworm: avahi-discover 0.8-10+deb12u1
- debian trixie: avahi-discover 0.8-16
- opensuse-leap 16.0: python3-avahi-gtk 0.8-160000.6.1 Β· LGPL-2.1-or-later
- opensuse-leap 16.0: python3-avahi-gtk 0.8-160000.6.1 Β· LGPL-2.1-or-later
- opensuse-leap 16.0: python3-avahi-gtk 0.8-160000.6.1 Β· LGPL-2.1-or-later
- opensuse-leap 16.0: python3-avahi-gtk 0.8-160000.6.1 Β· LGPL-2.1-or-later
- ubuntu jammy: avahi-discover 0.8-5ubuntu5
- ubuntu jammy: avahi-discover 0.8-5ubuntu5.5
- ubuntu noble: avahi-discover 0.8-13ubuntu6
- ubuntu noble: avahi-discover 0.8-13ubuntu6.2
- ubuntu questing: avahi-discover 0.8-16ubuntu3
- ubuntu questing: avahi-discover 0.8-16ubuntu3.2
- ubuntu resolute: avahi-discover 0.8-18ubuntu1
- ubuntu resolute: avahi-discover 0.8-18ubuntu1.1
- ubuntu stonking: avahi-discover 0.8-18ubuntu1.1
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