Grep nappaa vain ne rivit, joilla haluttu sana esiintyy, joten ei sen kuulukaan koko lspci -v:n tulostetta antaa. Jos haluaa vain jonkun tietyn laitteen täytyy käyttää lspcin vipuja. Esimerkiksi:
$ lspci -nn |grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G86M [Quadro NVS 140M] [10de:0429] (rev a1)
$ lspci -v -d10de:0429
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86M [Quadro NVS 140M] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at d2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia