NAME


hal-find-by-property - find device objects by property matching

SYNOPSIS


hal-find-by-property [options]

DESCRIPTION


hal-get-property finds device object in the HAL device database by looking at device properties. For more information about both the big picture and specific HAL properties, refer to the HAL spec which can be found in /usr/share/doc/packages/hal/spec/hal-spec.html depending on the distribution.

OPTIONS


The following options are supported:
--key The name of the property.
--string
 String value of the property
--verbose
 Verbose output.
--help
 Print out usage.
--version
 Print the version.

RETURN VALUE


If devices matching the given property are found each UDI (Unique Device Identifier) is printed on stdout and the program exits with exit code 0. If no devices are found or an error occured, the program exits with a non-zero exit code.

BUGS


Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the HAL mailing list, see http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal on how to subscribe.

SEE ALSO


hald(8), lshal(1), hal-set-property(1), hal-get-property(1), hal-find-by-capability(1), dbus-send(1)

AUTHOR


Written by David Zeuthen <david@fubar.dk> with a lot of help from many others.

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