collect-hwids(1)

💖 collect-hwids — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're about to talk about collect-hwids from the General Commands Manual and honestly? it's giving ✨hardware detective✨.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

collect-hwids — the tool that goes and collects CHIDs from a running system 🦋

(if you don't know what a CHID is yet, don't panic, keep reading, i got you 💅)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

collect-hwids [-o|--output] [-h|--help] [-V|--version]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. three little flags and she's done. iconic behavior honestly 😌

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea 🍓

collect-hwids goes and reads your system's hardware information — specifically the SMBIOS tables and the EDID data — and from all that it generates Computer Hardware IDs (CHIDs). slay.

the tool prints CHID information out to stdout, and optionally (if you ask nicely) it will also make a ZIP archive stuffed with the raw hardware data, which you can use for firmware update metadata or for debugging. main character utility, fr fr 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -o, --output <FILE> — the output path for the HWIDs ZIP archive 🗂️ this one creates a ZIP archive containing the SMBIOS tables, the EDID data, and the computed CHIDs. you'd use that archive either for firmware update metadata generation or for debugging hardware identification issues. and listen — if you don't specify it, then only the CHID information gets written to stdout, and nothing else. so if you wanted the zip, bestie, you have to actually ask for it 🙈
• -h, --help — prints the help (and yes, you can see a summary of it with -h) 🫶
• -V, --version — prints the version 🏷️

ngl -h and -V are the two besties you hit when you forgot literally everything. no shame in it. i do it too. 💀

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

v0.1.0

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and that's the whole page, angel 🌈 go forth and collect those CHIDs. periodt 💜

— with love from collect-hwids 0.1.0, straight out of the collect-hwids(1) manual, version v0.1.0 🎀✨