Man1 - avahi-browse.1

avahi-browse - Browse for mDNS/DNS-SD services using the Avahi daemon

*avahi-browse [*/options/*] */service-type/

avahi-browse [/options/*] –all*

avahi-browse [/options/*] –browse-domains*

avahi-browse [/options/*] –dump-db*

avahi-browse-domains [/options/*]*

Browse for mDNS/DNS-SD network services and browsing domains using the Avahi daemon.

Specify a DNS-SD service type (e.g. _http._tcp) to browse for on the command line, or -a to browse for all available service types. Items that appear on the network are prefixed with “+”, items that disappear are prefixed with “-”. If –resolve is passed items that are resolved are prefixed with “=”.

-a | –all

Browse for all service types registered on the LAN, not just the one specified on the command line.

-D | –browse-domains

Browse for browsing domains instead for services. avahi-browse-domains is equivalent to avahi-browse –browse-domains

-d | –domain= DOMAIN

Browse in the specified domain. If omitted avahi-browse will browse in the default browsing domain (usually: local)

-v | –verbose

Enable verbose mode.

-t | –terminate

Terminate after dumping a more or less complete list.

-c | –cache

Terminate after dumping all entries available in the cache.

-l | –ignore-local

Ignore local services, show only remote services.

-r | –resolve

Automatically resolve services found.

-f | –no-fail

Don’t fail if the daemon is not found running. Instead, wait until it appears. If it disconnects, try to reconnect.

-p | –parsable

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 –no-db-lookup.

-k | –no-db-lookup

Don’t lookup services types in service type database.

-b | –dump-db

Dump the service type database (may be combined with -k)

-h | –help

Show help.

-V | –version

Show version information.

The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/

avahi-publish(1), avahi-resolve(1), avahi-daemon(8)