cardos-tool(1) - Linux man page

Name

cardos-tool - displays information about Card OS-based security tokens or format them

cardos-tool [OPTIONS]

The cardos-tool utility is used to display information about smart cards and similar security tokens based on Siemens Card/OS M4.

--info, -i

Display information about the card or token.
--format, -f: Format the card or token.
--reader number, -r number: Specify the reader number number to use. The default is reader 0.
--card-driver name, -c driver: Use the card driver specified by name. The default is to auto-detect the correct card driver.
--wait, -w: Causes cardos-tool to wait for the token to be inserted into reader.
--verbose, -v: Causes cardos-tool to be more verbose. Specify this flag several times to enable debug output in the opensc library.