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1AXFER(1)                    General Commands Manual                   AXFER(1)
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NAME

6       axfer  -  command-line  sound recorder and player for sound devices and
7       nodes supported by Linux sound subsystem (Advanced Linux  Sound  Archi‐
8       tecture, also known as ALSA).
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SYNOPSYS

12       axfer subcommand direction options
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14       subcommand = transfer | list | version | help
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DESCRIPTION

22       The  axfer is a command-line recorder and player to transfer audio data
23       frame between sound devices/nodes and files/stdin/stdout.
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OPTIONS

27   Subcommand
28       transfer
29              Performs  transmission  of  audio  data  frame.  Its  detail  is
30              described in axfer-transfer(1) manual.
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38              Prints version of this  application  (as  the  same  version  as
39              alsa-utils package).
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52              Operates for playback transmission.
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EXIT STATUS

56       EXIT_SUCCESS (0) if run time successfully finished,  else  EXIT_FAILURE
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UNIT TEST

61       This  program  has unit tests for internal implementation. Please refer
62       to the manual of axfer-transfer for details.
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COMPATIBILITY TO APLAY

66       The axfer is designed to be compatible to aplay(1) as much as possible.
67       In  command  line,  executions  of aplay/arecord files under $PATH runs
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75   A string to which arg[0] points
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82       Options  of  -l , --list-devices , -L , --list-pcms are acknowledged as
83       list subcommand. Without them, the run time performs  transfer  subcom‐
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REPORTING BUGS

88       Report    any    bugs    to    mailing    list    of   ALSA   community
89       <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org> where the development and maintenance  is
90       primarily  done.  Bug  tracking  service  of  alsa-utils  repository on
91       github.com is also available.
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AUTHOR

99       Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
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103alsa-utils                     28 November 2018                       AXFER(1)