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🏷️ NAME

lsmod - Show the status of modules in the Linux Kernel

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
List all loaded modules	lsmod	📋 Display currently loaded kernel modules
Scroll through list	lsmod | less	📜 Pipe output to a pager for easy navigation
Search for a specific module	lsmod | grep <module_name>	🔍 Filter output to find if a module is loaded
Count loaded modules	lsmod | wc -l	🔢 Show the number of loaded modules (subtract 1 for header)

📋 SYNOPSIS

lsmod

📘 DESCRIPTION

📊 lsmod is a trivial program which nicely formats the contents of the /proc/modules, showing what kernel modules are currently loaded.

©️ COPYRIGHT

📜 This manual page originally Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation. Maintained by Jon Masters and others.

🔗 SEE ALSO

• 📄 insmod(8)
• 📄 modprobe(8)
• 📄 modinfo(8)
• 📄 depmod(8)

👥 AUTHORS

• 👨‍💻 Jon Masters <jcm AT jonmasters.org> - Developer
• 👨‍💻 Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi AT gmail.com> - Developer

kmod 04/30/2026 LSMOD(8)

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