| .TH avahi-browse 1 User Manuals |
| .SH NAME |
| avahi-browse \- Browse for mDNS/DNS-SD services using the Avahi daemon |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| \fBavahi-browse [\fIoptions\fB] \fIservice-type\fB |
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| avahi-browse [\fIoptions\fB] --all\fB |
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| avahi-browse [\fIoptions\fB] --browse-domains\fB |
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| avahi-browse [\fIoptions\fB] --dump-db\fB |
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| avahi-browse-domains [\fIoptions\fB] |
| \f1 |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| Browse for mDNS/DNS-SD network services and browsing domains using the Avahi daemon. |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| Specify a DNS-SD service type (e.g. _http._tcp) to browse for on the command line, or \fB-a\f1 to browse for all available service types. Items that appear on the network are prefixed with "+", items that disappear are prefixed with "-". If \fB--resolve\f1 is passed items that are resolved are prefixed with "=". |
| .TP |
| \fB-a | --all\f1 |
| Browse for all service types registered on the LAN, not just the one specified on the command line. |
| .TP |
| \fB-D | --browse-domains\f1 |
| Browse for browsing domains instead for services. avahi-browse-domains is equivalent to avahi-browse --browse-domains |
| .TP |
| \fB-d | --domain=\f1 \fIDOMAIN\f1 |
| Browse in the specified domain. If omitted avahi-browse will browse in the default browsing domain (usually .local) |
| .TP |
| \fB-v | --verbose\f1 |
| Enable verbose mode. |
| .TP |
| \fB-t | --terminate\f1 |
| Terminate after dumping a more or less complete list. |
| .TP |
| \fB-c | --cache\f1 |
| Terminate after dumping all entries available in the cache. |
| .TP |
| \fB-l | --ignore-local\f1 |
| Ignore local services, show only remote services. |
| .TP |
| \fB-r | --resolve\f1 |
| Automatically resolve services found. |
| .TP |
| \fB-f | --no-fail\f1 |
| Don't fail if the daemon is not found running. Instead, wait until it appears. If it disconnects, try to reconnect. |
| .TP |
| \fB-p | --parsable\f1 |
| Make output easily parsable for usage in scripts. If enabled fields are separated by semicolons (;), service names are escaped. It is recommended to combine this with \fB--no-db-lookup\f1. |
| .TP |
| \fB-k | --no-db-lookup\f1 |
| Don't lookup services types in service type database. |
| .TP |
| \fB-b | --dump-db\f1 |
| Dump the service type database (may be combined with -k) |
| .TP |
| \fB-h | --help\f1 |
| Show help. |
| .TP |
| \fB-V | --version\f1 |
| Show version information. |
| .SH AUTHORS |
| The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; Avahi is available from \fBhttp://avahi.org/\f1 |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| \fBavahi-publish(1)\f1, \fBavahi-resolve(1)\f1, \fBavahi-daemon(8)\f1 |
| .SH COMMENTS |
| This man page was written using \fBxml2man(1)\f1 by Oliver Kurth. |
