showrev displays revision information for the current hardware and software. With no arguments, showrev shows the system revision information including hostname, hostid, release, kernel architecture, application architecture, hardware provider, domain, and kernel version.

If a command is supplied with the -c option, showrev shows the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH and finds out all the directories within the PATH that contain it. For each file found, its file type, revision, permissions, library information, and checksum are printed as well.

The following options are supported:

-a

Print all system revision information available. Window system and patch information are added.

-c command

Print the revision information about command.

-p

Print only the revision information about patches.

-R root_path

Define the full path name of a directory to use as the root_path. By specifying the root path, showrev retrieves the revision information about the patch from package system information files located under a directory tree starting at root_path. The root_path can be specified when retrieving installed patch information in a client from a server, for example, /export/root/client1.

-s hostname

Perform this operation on the specified hostname. The -s operation completes correctly only when hostname is running Solaris 2.5 or compatible versions.

-w

Print only the OpenWindows revision information.

Varies, based on flags passed. If no flags are passed, output similar to the following appears:

Hostname: system1
	Hostid: 7233808e
	Release: 5.9
	Kernel architecture: sun4u
	Application architecture: sparc
	Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems
	Domain: a.network.COM
	Kernel version: SunOS 5.9 generic February 2001

The following error values are returned:

0

Successful completion.

>0

An error occurred.

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

arch(1), ldd(1), mcs(1), sum(1), patchadd(1M), attributes(5)

For the -s option to work when hostname is running a version of Solaris prior to 2.5, the Solstice AdminSuite must be installed on hostname.