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.TH iio_info 1 "19 November 2020" "libiio-0.21" "LibIIO Utilities"
.IX iio_info
.SH NAME
iio_info \- list IIO devices and device attributes
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B iio_info
[
.I options
]
-x <xml_file>
.br
.B iio_info
[
.I options
]
-n <hostname>
.br
.B iio_info
[
.I options
]
-u <uri>
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B iio_info
is a utility for displaying information about local or remote IIO devices

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Tells
.I iio_info
to display some help, and then quit.
.TP
.B \-x, \-\-xml
Use the XML backend with the provided XML file
.TP
.B \-n, \-\-network
Use the network backend with the provided hostname
.TP
.B \-u, \-\-uri
The Uniform Resource Identifier
.I (uri)
for connecting to devices, can be one of:
.RS
.IP ip:[address]
network address, either numeric (192.168.0.1) or network hostname
.IP ip:
blank, if compiled with zeroconf support, will find an IIO device on network
.IP usb:[device:port:instance]
normally returned from
.B iio_info -s
.IP serial:[port]
.IP local
with no address part
.RE
.TP
.B \-s, \-\-scan
Scan for available backends
.TP
.B \-a, \-\-auto
Scan for available contexts and if only one is available use it.

.SH RETURN VALUE
If the specified device is not found, a non-zero exit code is returned.

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.ad l
.BR iio_attr (1),
.BR iio_info (1),
.BR iio_readdev (1),
.BR iio_reg (1),
.BR iio_writedev (1),
.BR libiio (3)
.PP
libiio home page:
.BR \%https://wiki.analog.com/resources/tools-software/linux-software/libiio
.PP
libiio code:
.BR \%https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/libiio
.PP
Doxygen for libiio
.BR \%https://analogdevicesinc.github.io/libiio/
.SH BUGS
All bugs are tracked at:
.BR \%https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/libiio/issues