lsmod(8) - Linux manual page
Archived: 2026-04-05 13:15:19 UTC
LSMOD(8) lsmod LSMOD(8)
NAME         top
 lsmod - Show the status of modules in the Linux Kernel
SYNOPSIS         top
 lsmod [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION         top
 lsmod is a trivial program which nicely formats the contents of
 the /proc/modules, showing what kernel modules are currently
 loaded.
OPTIONS         top
 -s, --syslog
 Send errors to syslog instead of standard error.
 -v, --verbose
 Print messages about what the program is doing. Usually lsmod
 prints messages only if something goes wrong.
 -V, --version
 Show version of program and exit.
 -h, --help
 Print the help message and exit.
COPYRIGHT         top
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lsmod.8.html
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This manual page originally Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM
 Corporation.
SEE ALSO         top
 insmod(8), modprobe(8), modinfo(8), depmod(8)
BUGS         top
 Please direct any bug reports to kmod's issue tracker at
 https://github.com/kmod-project/kmod/issues/ alongside with
 version used, steps to reproduce the problem and the expected
 outcome.
AUTHORS         top
 Numerous contributions have come from the linux-modules mailing
 list <linux-modules@vger.kernel.org> and Github. If you have a
 clone of kmod.git itself, the output of git-shortlog(1) and
 git-blame(1) can show you the authors for specific parts of the
 project.
 Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> is the current
 maintainer of the project.
COLOPHON         top
 This page is part of the kmod (userspace tools for managing kernel
 modules) project. Information about the project can be found at
 [unknown -- if you know, please contact man-pages@man7.org] If you
 have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
 linux-modules@vger.kernel.org. This page was obtained from the
 project's upstream Git repository
 ⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git⟩ on
 2026-01-16. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
 that was found in the repository was 2026-01-16.) If you discover
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 believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page,
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kmod 2026-01-16 LSMOD(8)
Pages that refer to this page: delete_module(2),  init_module(2),  query_module(2),  proc(5),  proc_modules(5), 
insmod(8),  kmod(8),  modprobe(8),  rmmod(8)
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