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SYSTOOL(1) General Commands Manual SYSTOOL(1)

NAME

systool - view system device information by bus, class, and topology

SYNOPSIS

systool [options [device]]

DESCRIPTION

Calling systool without parameters will present all available bus types, device classes, and root devices.

When device is supplied, the information reqested by options is shown only for the specified device, otherwise all present devices are displayed.

systool uses APIs provided by libsysfs to gather information. systool runs only on Linux systems running kernels 2.5 or later, with the sysfs filesystem mounted.

OPTIONS

Show attributes of the requested resource
Show information for a specific bus
Show information for a specific class
Show only devices
Show usage
Show information for a specific module
Show absolute sysfs path to the resource
Show all attributes with values
Show attribute value for the requested resource
Show only drivers
Show device's parent

SEE ALSO

The web page of libsysfs at http://linux-diag.sourceforge.net/Sysfsutils.html

AUTHOR

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

This man page was contributed by Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

October 12, 2003 Martin Pitt