service-show 1 user commands nosh service-show svshow machine-parseable service status display service-show --json directory svshow --json directory service-show displays machine-parseable (but not necessarily human-readable) information about a service that may be currently managed by service-manager1 (or by runit's runsv1, by s6's s6-supervise1, by daemontools' supervise1, or by daemontools-encore's supervise1). Each directory is either a supervise directory or a directory with a supervise directory named supervise within it. The latter covers both daemontools-style service directories and nosh-style service bundles. If the --json command line option is used, the machine parseable format is JSON, with each directory being an entry in a top-level array of objects. Otherwise, the machine parseable format is that of a .INI file.; with each directory being a section within the file. For more on service and supervise directories, see service-manager1. For more on service bundles, see system-control1. Jos Backus asked for the --json option in 2013. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard