pw-mididump(1) General Commands Manual pw-mididump(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

pw-mididump - The PipeWire MIDI dump

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**pw-mididump** \[*options*] \[*FILE*]

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

Dump MIDI messages to stdout.

When a MIDI file is given, the events inside the file are printed.

When no file is given, **pw-mididump** creates a PipeWire MIDI input stream and will print all MIDI events received on the port to stdout.

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

**-r | --remote=NAME**

The name the remote instance to monitor. If left unspecified, a connection is made to the default PipeWire instance.

**-h | --help**

Show help.

**--version**

Show version information.

# [AUTHORS](#AUTHORS)

The PipeWire Developers <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>; PipeWire is available from <https://pipewire.org>

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**pipewire(1)**](/man/os/pipewire/pipewire.1), [**pw-cat(1)**](/man/os/pipewire/pw-cat.1)

1.6.11 PipeWire

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Document: pw-mididump(1) from pipewire 1.6.11-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire