lspci --help | grep driver
fails for some reason, it simply prints out the output instead of getting filtered by grep.
If I run lspci --help | grep driver
I get:
lspci: invalid option -- '-'
Usage: lspci [<switches>]
Basic display modes:
-mm Produce machine-readable output (single -m for an obsolete format)
-t Show bus tree
Display options:
-v Be verbose (-vv or -vvv for higher verbosity)
-k Show kernel drivers handling each device
-x Show hex-dump of the standard part of the config space
-xxx Show hex-dump of the whole config space (dangerous; root only)
-xxxx Show hex-dump of the 4096-byte extended config space (root only)
-b Bus-centric view (addresses and IRQ's as seen by the bus)
-D Always show domain numbers
-P Display bridge path in addition to bus and device number
-PP Display bus path in addition to bus and device number
Resolving of device ID's to names:
-n Show numeric ID's
-nn Show both textual and numeric ID's (names & numbers)
-q Query the PCI ID database for unknown ID's via DNS
-qq As above, but re-query locally cached entries
-Q Query the PCI ID database for all ID's via DNS
Selection of devices:
-s [[[[<domain>]:]<bus>]:][<slot>][.[<func>]] Show only devices in selected slots
-d [<vendor>]:[<device>][:<class>] Show only devices with specified ID's
Other options:
-i <file> Use specified ID database instead of /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids
-p <file> Look up kernel modules in a given file instead of default modules.pcimap
-M Enable `bus mapping' mode (dangerous; root only)
PCI access options:
-A <method> Use the specified PCI access method (see `-A help' for a list)
-O <par>=<val> Set PCI access parameter (see `-O help' for a list)
-G Enable PCI access debugging
-H <mode> Use direct hardware access (<mode> = 1 or 2)
-F <file> Read PCI configuration dump from a given file
instead of the output getting passed to grep
.
I have tried it both in zsh
and bash
and the behaviour is the same.
The error message itself tells you why it fails:
lspci: invalid option -- '-'
--help
is not a valid option (neither is anything else starting with --
). Thus, you get a usage message written as diagnostic content, and POSIX specifies that diagnostic contents belong on stderr (where it bypasses pipelines -- as is generally desirable, to ensure that diagnostic logs get to the human operator rather than being consumed by a pipeline).