SYSTEMD-HWDB(8)

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🎀 SYSTEMD-HWDB(8) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the SYSTEMD-HWDB(8) manual — aka the systemd-hwdb page. it's the hardware database management tool, and yes she has main character energy 💅✨

💖 NAME 💖

systemd-hwdb — hardware database management tool 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

systemd-hwdb [options] update

systemd-hwdb [options] query modalias

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so systemd-hwdb expects a command and command specific arguments. it manages the binary hardware database. that's the whole vibe — command first, then the args that belong to it 😌

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • --usr — generate in /usr/lib/udev instead of /etc/udev. added in version 219 ✨
  • -r, --root=PATH — alternate root path in the filesystem. added in version 219 🌈
  • -s, --strict — when updating, return non-zero exit value on any parsing error. added in version 239 💀
  • -h, --help — print a short help text and exit. 🫶

🛠️ systemd-hwdb [options] update

update the binary database. that's the glow-up command, bestie 💖

🔎 systemd-hwdb [options] query MODALIAS

query database and print result. no cap, that's the whole job 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

later bestie 🫶 — this page is from systemd 261.3. the footer didn't give a date, so I'm not inventing one, periodt 💀✨

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