LSMOD(8)

💖 LSMOD — like, the manual page, bestie 💖

okay so this is lsmod(8), a section 8 manual page, and honestly? it's giving "tiny program, huge main character energy." sit down, grab a strawberry, let's go 🍓✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

lsmod — show the status of modules in the Linux Kernel. yes bestie, that's it, that's the whole name section, short and slay 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lsmod [OPTIONS]

literally that's it. no drama, no positional args, just vibes and optional flags 🦋

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🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

lsmod is a trivial program — and I mean that affectionately, it's not doing too much, and that's the point 💖 — which nicely formats the contents of the /proc/modules file, showing what kernel modules are currently loaded.

so like: kernel modules go in, pretty list comes out. no cap. 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -s, --syslog — send errors to syslog instead of standard error. so instead of screaming into your terminal, it leaves a lil note in the syslog instead 🙈
• -v, --verbose — print messages about what the program is doing. usually lsmod keeps its mouth shut and only prints messages if something goes wrong, but with this flag it's like "hey bestie here's what I'm up to" ✨
• -V, --version — show version of the program and exit. quick lil flex, then it dips 💅
• -h, --help — print the help message and exit. the classic "help me help you" move 🫶

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

This manual page originally Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation. icon behavior, truly. respect the OG 🎀

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

insmod(8), modprobe(8), modinfo(8), depmod(8) — the whole friend group fr fr. go say hi 🌈

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💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? noooo 😭 please direct any bug reports to kmod's issue tracker at https://github.com/kmod-project/kmod/issues/ — and when you do, bring receipts bestie:

• the version used
• steps to reproduce the problem
• the expected outcome

that's the trio. don't leave me guessing, I'm begging 🙏

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🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

Numerous contributions have come from the linux-modules mailing list <linux-modules@vger.kernel.org> and Github. honestly a whole community carry, we love to see it 🫶

If you have a clone of kmod.git itself, the output of git-shortlog(1) and git-blame(1) can show you the authors for specific parts of the project. detective mode activated, iykyk 🔍

Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> is the current maintainer of the project. current main character, periodt 👑

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this was lsmod from kmod, dated 2026-10-30. thanks for reading my little manpage rant, love u, go check your loaded modules 💜🦋🌸