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26  <manpage name="avahi-browse" section="1" desc="Browse for mDNS/DNS-SD services using the Avahi daemon">
27
28	<synopsis>
29      <cmd>avahi-browse [<arg>options</arg>] <arg>service-type</arg></cmd>
30      <cmd>avahi-browse [<arg>options</arg>] <opt>--all</opt></cmd>
31      <cmd>avahi-browse [<arg>options</arg>] <opt>--browse-domains</opt></cmd>
32      <cmd>avahi-browse [<arg>options</arg>] <opt>--dump-db</opt></cmd>
33      <cmd>avahi-browse-domains [<arg>options</arg>]</cmd>
34	</synopsis>
35
36    <description>
37      <p>Browse for mDNS/DNS-SD network services and browsing domains using the Avahi daemon.</p>
38
39	</description>
40
41	<options>
42
43      <p>Specify a DNS-SD service type (e.g. _http._tcp) to browse for
44      on the command line, or <opt>-a</opt> to browse for all
45      available service types. Items that appear on the network are prefixed with "+", items that disappear are prefixed with "-". If <opt>--resolve</opt> is passed items that are resolved are prefixed with "=".</p>
46
47      <option>
48		<p><opt>-a | --all</opt></p>
49		<optdesc><p>Browse for all service types registered on the LAN, not just the one specified on the command line.</p></optdesc>
50	  </option>
51
52      <option>
53        <p><opt>-D | --browse-domains</opt></p>
54        <optdesc><p>Browse for browsing domains instead for services. avahi-browse-domains is equivalent to avahi-browse --browse-domains</p></optdesc>
55      </option>
56
57 	  <option>
58		<p><opt>-d | --domain=</opt> <arg>DOMAIN</arg></p>
59        <optdesc><p>Browse in the specified domain. If omitted
60        avahi-browse will browse in the default browsing domain
61        (usually .local)</p></optdesc>
62	  </option>
63
64      <option>
65        <p><opt>-v | --verbose</opt></p>
66        <optdesc><p>Enable verbose mode.</p></optdesc>
67      </option>
68
69      <option>
70        <p><opt>-t | --terminate</opt></p>
71        <optdesc><p>Terminate after dumping a more or less complete list.</p></optdesc>
72      </option>
73
74      <option>
75        <p><opt>-c | --cache</opt></p>
76        <optdesc><p>Terminate after dumping all entries available in the cache.</p></optdesc>
77      </option>
78
79      <option>
80        <p><opt>-l | --ignore-local</opt></p>
81        <optdesc><p>Ignore local services, show only remote services.</p></optdesc>
82      </option>
83
84	  <option>
85		<p><opt>-r | --resolve</opt></p>
86		<optdesc><p>Automatically resolve services found.</p></optdesc>
87	  </option>
88
89	  <option>
90		<p><opt>-f | --no-fail</opt></p>
91		<optdesc><p>Don't fail if the daemon is not found running. Instead, wait until it appears. If it disconnects, try to reconnect.</p></optdesc>
92	  </option>
93
94	  <option>
95                <p><opt>-p | --parsable</opt></p>
96		<optdesc><p>Make output easily parsable for usage in scripts. If enabled fields are seperated by semicolons (;), service names are escaped. It is recommended to combine this with <opt>--no-db-lookup</opt>.</p></optdesc>
97	  </option>
98
99	  <option>
100		<p><opt>-k | --no-db-lookup</opt></p>
101		<optdesc><p>Don't lookup services types in service type database.</p></optdesc>
102	  </option>
103
104	  <option>
105		<p><opt>-b | --dump-db</opt></p>
106		<optdesc><p>Dump the service type database (may be combined with -k)</p></optdesc>
107	  </option>
108
109	  <option>
110		<p><opt>-h | --help</opt></p>
111		<optdesc><p>Show help.</p></optdesc>
112	  </option>
113
114	  <option>
115		<p><opt>-V | --version</opt></p>
116		<optdesc><p>Show version information.</p></optdesc>
117	  </option>
118
119	</options>
120
121	<section name="Authors">
122	  <p>The Avahi Developers &lt;@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@&gt;; Avahi is
123	  available from <url href="@PACKAGE_URL@"/></p>
124	</section>
125
126	<section name="See also">
127	  <p>
128        <manref name="avahi-publish" section="1"/>, <manref name="avahi-resolve" section="1"/>, <manref name="avahi-daemon" section="8"/>
129	  </p>
130	</section>
131
132	<section name="Comments">
133	  <p>This man page was written using <manref name="xml2man" section="1"
134		  href="http://masqmail.cx/xml2man/"/> by Oliver Kurth.</p>
135	</section>
136
137  </manpage>
138