hp-query(1)

✨ hp-query ✨

okay bestie, welcome to hp-query from the User Manuals section — it's the Model Query Utility and it's lowkey the backbone of everything, iykyk 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

hp-query — Model Query Utility 🎀

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So basically? You point this thing at a printer model and it hands you back its static model info ✨. That's it, that's the whole vibe. It was literally designed to be called from other processes, so it's giving very much "background bestie doing the work while everyone else takes the credit" 😭👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

hp-query [MODE] [OPTIONS]

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⭐ MODE ⭐

• -n or --non-interactive — run it in non-interactive mode, aka no chatting back, just vibes and output 🫶

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

Set the logging level:

• -l<level> or --logging=<level> — pick your logging level, bestie. your choices are none, info*, error, warn, debug — and yes the * on info means that's the default 🌈

Run in debug mode:

• -g — debug mode, go off. (same as option: -ldebug) 🔥

This help information:

• -h or --help — show this help info, no thoughts just help 🙈

Specify model by device URI:

• -d<device_uri> or --device=<device_uri> — tell it which model by handing over a device URI 📎

Specify normalized model name:

• -m<model_name> or --model=<model_name> — give a normalized model name (that's the normalized models.dat format, periodt) 💜

Specify raw model name:

• -r<model_name> or --raw=<model_name> — give a raw model name instead (that's the raw model name from the MDL: field of the device ID, ngl very specific of it) 🍓

Specify key to query:

• -k<key> or --key=<key> — name the key you wanna query. (or, use -a/--all to return all keys) 🔑

Query all keys:

• -a or --all — pull every key at once. (default separator is a LF) 👑

Specify the separator when multiple keys are queried:

• -s<sep> --sep=<sep> — choose the separator for when you're querying multiple keys. it can be a character, or one of 'tab', 'newline', 'cr', 'lf', 'crlf'. (only valid when used with -a/--all) 🎀

Suppress trailing linefeed:

• -x — kill that trailing linefeed, so clean, so chic ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• hp-info 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

HPLIP (HP Linux Imaging and Printing) is an HP developed solution for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP inkjet and laser based printers in Linux. iconic honestly 💖

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💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

The HPLIP Launchpad.net site https://launchpad.net/hplip is available to get help, report bugs, make suggestions, discuss the HPLIP project or otherwise contact the HPLIP Team. go tell them everything bestie, they wanna hear it 🫶

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, L.P.

This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. ⚠️ like fr fr, no warranty, read the COPYING file, it's right there.

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and that's the whole page bestie, slay 💅✨ this came from the Linux manual set, version 0.2, and it's the hp-query(1) entry — go forth and query responsibly 🦋🌸