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Diffstat (limited to 'man/dmidecode.8')
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diff --git a/man/dmidecode.8 b/man/dmidecode.8 index 932c5df..8e068da 100644 --- a/man/dmidecode.8 +++ b/man/dmidecode.8 @@ -62,8 +62,7 @@ Read memory from device \fBFILE\fR (default: \fB/dev/mem\fR) .TP .BR "-q" ", " "--quiet" Be less verbose. Unknown, inactive and \s-1OEM\s0-specific entries are not -displayed. Meta-data and handle references are hidden. Mutually exclusive -with \fB--dump\fR. +displayed. Meta-data and handle references are hidden. .TP .BR "-s" ", " "--string KEYWORD" Only display the value of the \s-1DMI\s0 string identified by \fBKEYWORD\fR. @@ -89,8 +88,7 @@ If \fBKEYWORD\fR is not provided or not valid, a list of all valid keywords is printed and .B dmidecode exits with an error. -This option cannot be used more than once, and implies \fB--quiet\fR. -Mutually exclusive with \fB--type\fR and \fB--dump\fR. +This option cannot be used more than once. .TP .BR "-t" ", " "--type TYPE" Only display the entries of type \fBTYPE\fR. \fBTYPE\fR can be either a @@ -105,29 +103,30 @@ If \fBTYPE\fR is not provided or not valid, a list of all valid keywords is printed and .B dmidecode exits with an error. -Mutually exclusive with \fB--string\fR. .TP .BR "-u" ", " "--dump" Do not decode the entries, dump their contents as hexadecimal instead. Note that this is still a text output, no binary data will be thrown upon you. The strings attached to each entry are displayed as both hexadecimal and \s-1ASCII\s0. This option is mainly useful for debugging. -Mutually exclusive with \fB--quiet\fR and \fB--string\fR. .TP .BR " " " " "--dump-bin FILE" Do not decode the entries, instead dump the DMI data to a file in binary form. The generated file is suitable to pass to \fB--from-dump\fR -later. Mutually exclusive with \fB--type\fR and \fB--string\fR. +later. .TP .BR " " " " "--from-dump FILE" Read the DMI data from a binary file previously generated using -\fB--dump-bin\fR. Mutually exclusive with \fB--dump-bin\fR. +\fB--dump-bin\fR. .TP .BR "-h" ", " "--help" Display usage information and exit .TP .BR "-V" ", " "--version" Display the version and exit +.P +Options --string, --type, --dump and --dump-bin +determine the output format and are mutually exclusive. .SH "DMI TYPES" The \s-1SMBIOS\s0 specification defines the following \s-1DMI\s0 types: |