Manual: genl

GENL(8)							    Linux						     GENL(8)

NAME
       genl - generic netlink utility frontend

SYNOPSIS
       genl[ OPTIONS ] OBJECT
       genl { -V[ersion] | -h[elp] }

       OPTIONS := { -s[tatistics] | -d[etails] | -j[son] | -p[retty] }

       OBJECT := { ctrl CTRL_OPTS }

       CTRL_OPTS := { help | list | monitor | get PARMS }

       PARMS := { name NAME | id ID }

DESCRIPTION
       The  genl utility provides a simple frontend to the generic netlink library. Although it's designed to support multi‐
       ple OBJECTs, for now only the ctrl object is available, which is used to query the generic netlink controller.

   ctrl
       The generic netlink controller can be queried in various ways:

       help   This command just prints a help text for the ctrl object.

       list   Show the registered netlink users.

       monitor
	      Listen for generic netlink notifications.

       get    Query the controller for a given user, identified either by name or id.

OPTIONS
       genl supports the following options.

       -h, -help
	      Show summary of options.

       -V, -Version
	      Show version of program.

       -s, -stats, -statistics
	      Show object statistics.

       -d, -details
	      Show object details.

       -j, -json
	      Output results in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).

       -p, -pretty
	      Add indentation for readability.

       -r, -raw
	      Dump raw output only.

SEE ALSO
       ip(8)

AUTHOR
       genl was written by Jamal Hadi Salim .

       This manual page was written by Petr Sabata .

iproute2						 29 Oct 2015						     GENL(8)