usbdevs(8)

usbdevs8

Show usb devices connected to the system

Usage

usbdevs [-v] [-a addr] [-d usbdev]

Overview

usbdevs prints a listing of all USB devices connected to the system with some information about each device.

The options are as follows:

-a addr

Only print information about the device at the given address.

-d usbdev

Only print information for the given USB controller.

-v

Be verbose. Multiple -v options increase the verbosity.

Files

/dev/usb[0-9]

Default USB controllers.

Releases

55 releases since OpenBSD 2.7; the text changed 7 times.

  1. 2.7
  2. 2.8–2.9
  3. 3.0–3.1
  4. 3.2–3.5
  5. 3.6–4.1
  6. 4.2–4.3
  7. 4.4–6.3
  8. 6.4–8.0

-d since OpenBSD 3.0.

-f until OpenBSD 6.3.

History

The usbdevs command appeared in OpenBSD 2.7.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.