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The command you’re looking for is lsusb. There’s going to be a lot in there, but for a security token like that, you’re probably looking for something that says “yibikey”, “Fido”, or “u2f”.

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Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Thank you! I do have a question though. What does the “ls” in lsusb stand for? I’ve found several query commands that begin with ls and it might help me remember them a bit better if I understand what they mean

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- seathru@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I don’t know it’s proper name but “list” is an easy way to remember it. Want to see a list of what’s in a folder? ls.
  
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  - Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    The name inherited from Multics and is short for “list”.
    
    wikipedia.org/wiki/Ls
    
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  - SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    ls or l is also often used as an option/switch that is passed to another program to list something. Want to list all active Screen sessions? screen -ls. Want to list all mounted filesystems? mount -l
    
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  - vaionko@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    List of PCI devices? lspci.
    
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  - Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Alright, that’s not hard to remember. Thank you!
    
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