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Subject: Fwd: Re: SYNOPSIS not showing many options in
 http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/modprobe.8.html
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 > In the SYNOPSIS for http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/modprobe.8.html

> these options aren't shown:
> 
> **-a, --all
> -d, --dirname
> --first-time
> --force-vermagic
> --force-modversion
> -f, --force
> -R, --resolve-alias
> -S, --set-version
> --show-depends
> -s, --syslog
> 
>         *modprobe *[*-v*] [*-V*] [*-C */config-file/] [*-n*] [*-i*] [*-q*] [*-b*] [/modulename/]
>                  [/module parameters/...]
> 
>         *modprobe *[-r] [*-v*] [*-n*] [*-i*] [/modulename/...]
> 
>         *modprobe *[-c]
> 
>         *modprobe *[--dump-modversions] [/filename/]
> 
> 
> I don't know; is the SYNOPSIS just out of date, or are these options 
> that can be used anywhere?