DEBSBOM-FILTER(1)

💖 DEBSBOM-FILTER(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for debsbom-filter, the filter command of the debsbom family — you're in the right place, pull up a chair 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

debsbom-filter — the debsbom filter command, aka the one that goes "hmm, not all of this needs to come with us" 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

debsbom filter [-h] [-t {cdx,spdx}] [--sources] [--binaries] [--validate]
               [-p PACKAGE]
               bomin bomout

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Filter sbom. That's the whole vibe. You feed it an SBOM, it hands you back a filtered SBOM. Iconic behaviour, honestly.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

📌 Positional Arguments

• bomin — the sbom file(s) you want processed as the input. Yes, plural, it's giving options ✨ and yes, if you pass - instead of a filename it will read from stdin. Iconic.
• bomout — the sbom output file. And if you pass - here, it writes to stdout instead. So flexible, so main character 💖

🏷️ Named Arguments

• -t, --sbom-type — tells it which SBOM type to process. Default is auto-detect... but heads up bestie, it's required when reading from stdin 😭 because how is it supposed to guess when it's just a stream of vibes? Possible choices are exactly: cdx, spdx. No cap.
• --sources=False — operate only on source packages (skip the binaries) 🧚
• --binaries=False — operate only on binary packages (skip the sources) 🍓
• --validate=False — validate the generated SBOM. ngl, this one is only for SPDX 👑
• -p, --package — filter the SBOM so it only includes the package and its dependency subgraph. It's giving "just the essentials, periodt" 🔥

💀 little note from me to you: the -h in the synopsis? that's your classic help flag right there, always showing up like it owns the place.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• debsbom-generate(1) — the sibling, go say hi 🌈

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👑 DEBSBOM 👑

Part of the debsbom(1) suite. One big happy family fr fr 🫶

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✍️ Author

Christoph Steiger, Felix Moessbauer — absolute legends, we stan 🌟

©️ Copyright

2025, Siemens — periodt 💅

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this lil cutie shipped as part of the debsbom suite on Jul 28, 2026, and you now know it top to bottom. slay 💖✨🎀