SYSTOOL(1)

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💖 SYSTOOL 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because systool is genuinely one of those lil tools that eats and leaves no crumbs — it's the systool command from the General Commands Manual section, and it's here to let you view system device information by bus, class, and topology. no cap. 🔥

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

systool [options [device]]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, if you just run systool with no parameters at all? it's giving "show me everything" — it presents all available bus types, device classes, and root devices. the whole vibe check, unfiltered. 💅

when you hand it a device, the info that your options asked for is shown only for that one specified device. no device? then it's showing you all present devices instead. simple as that. 🎀

here's the lore: systool uses APIs provided by libsysfs to gather all this info. and it's kinda picky about where it runs — it only runs on Linux systems running kernels 2.5 or later, with the sysfs filesystem mounted. no sysfs, no slay. 😭

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -a — show attributes of the requested resource.
  • -b bus — show information for a specific bus.
  • -c class — show information for a specific class.
  • -d — show only devices.
  • -h — show usage.
  • -m module_name — show information for a specific module.
  • -p — show the absolute sysfs path to the resource.
  • -v — show all attributes with values.
  • -A attribute — show attribute value for the requested resource.
  • -D — show only drivers.
  • -P — show device's parent. 👑
lowkey important: keep the flags exactly as written, bestie — they're case-sensitive and -A is NOT the same as -a. iykyk. 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the web page of libsysfs at <http://linux-diag.sourceforge.net/Sysfsutils.html>. go read it, it's iconic. ⭐

💜 AUTHOR 💜

systool was written by Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> and Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>. kings. 👑

this man page was contributed by Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). giving main character energy for the whole Debian girlies fr fr. 🫶

and that's the whole thing, bestie — this lil beauty ships as part of sysfsutils, dated 2019-11-16, and lives in section SYSTOOL(1) of the manual. go forth and vibe check your devices. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸

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