NAME¶
bidentify - Barry Project's program to identify BlackBerry handhelds
SYNOPSIS¶
bidentify [-B busname][-N devname][-h][-v]
DESCRIPTION¶
bidentify scans the USB system for available BlackBerry devices and
probes each one it finds, then sends the identifying information to stdout in
a computer‐friendly format.
OPTIONS¶
- -B busname
- Specify the USB bus to search for Blackberry devices on.
This is the first number displayed in the output from the lsusb command,
such as 002. If the busname is numeric on your system, 2 and 002 are
equal. See also the -N option, which can be used together with this option
to precisely select the device to work with.
- -N devname
- Specify the USB device name. This is the second number
displayed in the output from the lsusb command, such as 005. If the device
name is numeric on your system, 5 and 005 are equal. See also the -B
option.
- -c
- If used with the -m option, ESN numbers will be displayed
in both hex and decimal formats where possible. If -m is not used, this
option has no effect.
- -m
- Also show the device's ESN / MEID / IMEI number. This
requires desktop database access, so is an option. It will only work on
devices that have no password.
- -v
- Dump verbose protocol data during operation.
- -h, --help
- Show summary of options.
RETURN STATUS¶
If
bidentify detects a BlackBerry device, but cannot access it for some
reason, it will write an error message to stderr describing the access
problem, and return a count of the number of such failed devices as the error
code. A return code of 0 means there were no BlackBerry devices found that
could not be probed.
In the event of a fatal error, the message will be written to stderr, with an
error code of 1.
AUTHOR¶
bidentify is part of the Barry project. This manual page was written by
Chris Frey.
SEE ALSO¶
http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry