1BIDENTIFY(1)                General Commands Manual               BIDENTIFY(1)
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NAME

6       bidentify - Barry Project's program to identify BlackBerry handhelds
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SYNOPSIS

9       bidentify [-B busname][-N devname][-c][-m][-s][-h][-v]
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DESCRIPTION

12       bidentify  scans  the  USB  system for available BlackBerry devices and
13       probes each one it finds, then sends  the  identifying  information  to
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OPTIONS

17       -B busname
18              Specify  the  USB bus to search for Blackberry devices on.  This
19              is the first number displayed in the output from the lsusb  com‐
20              mand,  such as 002.  If the busname is numeric on your system, 2
21              and 002 are equal.  See also the -N option, which  can  be  used
22              together with this option to precisely select the device to work
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25       -N devname
26              Specify the USB device name.  This is  the  second  number  dis‐
27              played  in  the  output from the lsusb command, such as 005.  If
28              the device name is numeric on your system, 5 and 005 are  equal.
29              See also the -B option.
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31       -c     If  used  with  the  -m option, ESN numbers will be displayed in
32              both hex and decimal formats where possible.  If -m is not used,
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35       -m     Also  show the device's ESN / MEID / IMEI number.  This requires
36              desktop database access, so is an option.  It will only work  on
37              devices that have no password.
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39       -s     Also  show  the  device's  USB  serial number.  This is the same
40              serial number that is available through the lsusb  command  line
41              tool, and may not always be what you expect.
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45       -h, --help
46              Show summary of options.
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RETURN STATUS

51       If bidentify detects a BlackBerry device, but cannot access it for some
52       reason, it will write an error message to stderr describing the  access
53       problem, and return a count of the number of such failed devices as the
54       error code.  A return code of 0 means there were no BlackBerry  devices
55       found that could not be probed.
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57       In  the  event of a fatal error, the message will be written to stderr,
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AUTHOR

63       bidentify is part of the Barry project.  This manual page  was  written
64       by Chris Frey.
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SEE ALSO

67       http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry
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