nfc-scan-device(1)

👑 nfc-scan-device — it's giving "let me find ur NFC besties" 💖

okay so real quick, before we even start: this is a page from NFC Utilities, and it's the manual for nfc-scan-device. hi bestie, welcome, let's go ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

nfc-scan-device — literally just scans for NFC devices, that's the whole vibe 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

nfc-scan-device [ options ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So nfc-scan-device is this little utility whose entire job — its main character moment, honestly — is listing every available device that's compliant with libnfc. Like, it goes out there, finds ur devices, and reports back 💅

And if u want more tea? It can optionally show off the device's capabilities too. optional, but iconic. 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -v — tells nfc-scan-device to be verbose, which means it spills the detailed information about all the devices it found. no holding back, we love a gossip queen 💖
• -i — tells nfc-scan-device to allow an intrusive scan (think: scanning serial ports and stuff 👀). this one is equivalent to setting the environment variable LIBNFC_INTRUSIVE_SCAN to "yes". yes literally the same thing, no cap.

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

here's what it looks like for a SCL3711 device (and we're in verbose mode, obvi):

 - SCM Micro / SCL3711-NFC&RW:
     pn53x_usb:002:017
 chip: PN533 v2.7
 initator mode modulations: ISO/IEC 14443A (106 kbps), FeliCa (424 kbps,
212 kbps), ISO/IEC 14443-4B (847 kbps, 424 kbps, 212 kbps, 106 kbps),
Innovision Jewel (106 kbps), D.E.P. (424 kbps, 212 kbps, 106 kbps)
 target mode modulations: ISO/IEC 14443A (106 kbps), FeliCa (424 kbps,
212 kbps, D.E.P. (424 kbps, 212 kbps, 106 kbps)

look at all those modulations bestie, it ate 💀✨

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? not cute. pls report any bugs on the libnfc issue tracker at:

https://github.com/nfc-tools/libnfc/issues

📜 LICENCE 📜

libnfc is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 3.

libnfc-utils and libnfc-examples are covered by the the BSD 2-Clause license. (yes, "the the", that's how it's written, we don't edit the ancestors 🙈)

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Roel Verdult <roel@libnfc.org>,
• Romain Tartière <romain@libnfc.org>,
• Romuald Conty <romuald@libnfc.org>.

This manual page was written by Romuald Conty <romuald@libnfc.org>. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later).

ngl, if u got all the way down here, ur a real one 🫶 go scan something, slay, periodt 💅

k bye!! this page lives in libnfc, and it's dated October 21, 2012 — yeah it's an elder but it still serves 💜✨