HAL-FIND-BY-PROPERTY(1) 				      General Commands Manual					   HAL-FIND-BY-PROPERTY(1)

NAME

       hal-find-by-property - find device objects by property matching

SYNOPSIS

       hal-find-by-property [options]

DESCRIPTION

       hal-get-property  finds	device	object in the HAL device database by looking at device properties. For more information about both the big
       picture and specific HAL properties, refer to the HAL spec which can be found in  /usr/share/doc/packages/hal/spec/hal-spec.html  depending
       on the distribution.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --key  The name of the property.

       --string
	      String value of the property

       --verbose
	      Verbose output.

       --help Print out usage.

       --version
	      Print the version.

RETURN VALUE

       If  devices  matching the given property are found each UDI (Unique Device Identifier) is printed on stdout and the program exits with exit
       code 0. If no devices are found or an error occured, the program exits with a non-zero exit code.

BUGS

       Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the HAL mailing list, see http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal on how to
       subscribe.

SEE ALSO

       hald(8), lshal(1), hal-set-property(1), hal-get-property(1), hal-find-by-capability(1), dbus-send(1)

AUTHOR

       Written by David Zeuthen <david@fubar.dk> with a lot of help from many others.

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