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lsipc — Show information on System V IPC facilities currently employed in the system. See also: `ipcs`. More

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Problem

How to use the lsipc command: Show information on System V IPC facilities currently employed in the system. See also: ipcs. More information: <https://manned.org/lsipc>.

Solution

lsipc — Show information on System V IPC facilities currently employed in the system. See also: ipcs. More information: <https://manned.org/lsipc>.

Show information about all active IPC facilities:

lsipc

Show information about active shared [m]emory segments, message [q]ueues, or [s]empahore sets:

lsipc {{--shmems|--queues|--semaphores}}

Show full details on the resource with a specific ID:

lsipc {{--shmems|--queues|--semaphores}} {{[-i|--id]}} {{resource_id}}

Print the given output columns (see all supported columns with --help):

lsipc {{[-o|--output]}} {{KEY,ID,PERMS,SEND,STATUS,NSEMS,RESOURCE,...}}

Use [r]aw, [J]SON, [l]ist, or [e]xport (key="value") format:

lsipc {{--raw|--json|--list|--export}}

Don't truncate the output:

lsipc --notruncate

Code Snippets

Show information about all active IPC facilities

lsipc

Show information about active shared [m]emory segments, message [q]ueues, or [s]empahore sets

lsipc {{--shmems|--queues|--semaphores}}

Show full details on the resource with a specific ID

lsipc {{--shmems|--queues|--semaphores}} {{[-i|--id]}} {{resource_id}}

Print the given output columns (see all supported columns with `--help`)

lsipc {{[-o|--output]}} {{KEY,ID,PERMS,SEND,STATUS,NSEMS,RESOURCE,...}}

Use [r]aw, [J]SON, [l]ist, or [e]xport (key="value") format

lsipc {{--raw|--json|--list|--export}}

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