LV2LS(1)

💖 LV2LS(1) — the "what plugins do I even have" page 💖

okay bestie so this is lv2ls, and it lives in the General Commands Manual, section 1. it's one of those tiny lil tools that does exactly one thing and does it flawlessly. main character energy, honestly.

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✨ NAME ✨

lv2ls — list installed LV2 plugins 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lv2ls [-Vhn] [--help] [--names] [--version]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like. lv2ls prints the URI of every installed LV2 plugin to stdout. that's it. that's the whole job. no drama, no extra steps, just vibes and URIs. 💅

the plugins get discovered with the same mechanism used by most hosts — so what you see here is genuinely what your DAW is gonna see. no cap.

the options are as follows, and yes there are only three, and yes that's iconic of it:

• -V, --version — print version information and then exit. cute lil flex, then she's gone. ✨
• -h, --help — print usage information and exit. she's helping you help yourself, periodt. 🫶
• -n, --names — show names instead of URIs. so if you want pretty human words instead of urn:... gibberish, this is your girl. 🎀

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💜 ENVIRONMENT 💜

• LV2_PATH — list of directories to search for LV2 plugin bundles, in the style of PATH. iykyk — colon-separated, same energy as your regular PATH, just for plugin bundles. 🧚

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🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

lv2ls exits with a status of 0, or non-zero if an error occurred. so like, zero means we ate, non-zero means something went sideways. 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• lv2apply(1)
• lv2bench(1)
• lv2info(1)

go read those too, they're the rest of the friend group. 🫶

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💖 AUTHORS 💖

lv2ls is a part of lilv, by David Robillard ⟨d@drobilla.net⟩. absolute legend, we stan. 👑

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one shipped as part of Debian, dated January 20, 2025, and it's the LV2LS(1) page forever and always. now go list some plugins. mwah. 💅✨🌸