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Subject: Re: how to detect whether a laptop is docked
From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz AT cygwin DOT com>
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 14:50:51 -0500
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On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 19:27 +0000, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> I am looking for a method by which I can determine within a shell script 
> whether my laptop is docked or not. Google provided some answers for Linux 
> and Windows users, but the several ways I tried did not work out.
> 
> One Windows solution * provided a VB script that accessed a registry variable ‡,
> but my registry value remains the same whether or not I'm docked. 
> 
> The Linux solutions required either a file I don't have (/var/run/stab) or a tool
> that I don't have and couldn't find in a Cygwin search (acpid or lsusb).

lsusb is part the usbutils package, which is currently in Ports.

--
Yaakov




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