OFPATHNAME(8)

💅 OFPATHNAME(8) — okay bestie, let's talk Open Firmware ✨

So this lil icon lives in the Linux on Power Service Tools corner of the universe, and her whole job is translating between Open Firmware names and logical device names. Yes, she's bilingual. No, she will not gatekeep. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ofpathname — translates between Open Firmware and logical device names, fr fr.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

/usr/sbin/ofpathname [-laqVh] name

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this: PowerPC-64 systems, right? Ofpathname is the girlypop who can translate logical device names into their Open Firmware device path names. Literally her main character moment. 💅

And because she's versatile (we love a multihyphenate), she can also go the other way — translating an Open Firmware device path back into its logical device name — and you do that with the -l option. Slay. 🔥

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -l — translates the name parameter into the corresponding logical device name. The reverse-direction queen 👑
• -a — finds a matching Open Firmware device alias[es]. go find your people bestie 🌈
• --quiet (-q) — do not report any failures, just exit quietly. no drama, no announcements, we simply leave 🤫
• --version (-V) — display version information and exit. show us the receipts 💖
• --help (-h) — print usage information. the helpful bestie we all need 🫶

ngl, -q really said "if I don't acknowledge the failure, did it even happen?" — but that's literally what it does, so use it on purpose, okay? 🙈

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Written by Nathan Fontenot. ty for your service king 🎀

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• bootlist(8)
• nvram(8)

go read those next, iykyk 📚✨

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and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — this page is from Linux, dated April 2004, and it's the ofpathname(8) manual page. mwah 💋🌸