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6 systool - view system device information by bus, class, and topology
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10 systool [options [device]]
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21 systool uses APIs provided by libsysfs to gather information. systool
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59 systool was written by Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> and
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62 This man page was contributed by Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> for the
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