NVREAD(1)

✨ NAME ✨

nvread — Runs TPM2_NV_Read, bestie 💖

(also hi, this is the NVREAD(1) page from the User Commands corner of the manual, so you're in the right place 🫶)

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so. first thing the page tells you, and I quote, is this:

--version-string=v1045 is not a valid option

like. that's literally how it opens. iconic honestly 💀

then it just says nvread, and then it says:

Runs TPM2_NV_Read

and here's the whole shape of it 🌸

       [-hia hierarchy authorization (o, p)(default index
       authorization)] -ha NV index handle [-pwdn password for NV index
       (default empty)] [-sz data size (default 0)] [-off offset
       (default 0)] [-of data file (default do not save)]

-se[0-2] session handle / attributes (default PWAP)

       01 continue

so, breaking that down into little bullet besties, here's every single flag with its exact default, no cap:

• -hia — hierarchy authorization (o, p) (default index authorization)
• -ha — NV index handle
• -pwdn — password for NV index (default empty)
• -sz — data size (default 0)
• -off — offset (default 0)
• -of — data file (default do not save)
• -se[0-2] — session handle / attributes (default PWAP)
  • 01 continue

then it says --version is not a valid option. yep. again. the page is really out here just telling you what isn't a valid option, twice 😭 and then, genuinely, it does the whole thing over again — same words, same vibes, same everything. so here it is a second time, because I am not skipping a single crumb, periodt 🍓

nvread

Runs TPM2_NV_Read

       [-hia hierarchy authorization (o, p)(default index
       authorization)] -ha NV index handle [-pwdn password for NV index
       (default empty)] [-sz data size (default 0)] [-off offset
       (default 0)] [-of data file (default do not save)]

-se[0-2] session handle / attributes (default PWAP)

       01 continue

• -hia — hierarchy authorization (o, p) (default index authorization)
• -ha — NV index handle
• -pwdn — password for NV index (default empty)
• -sz — data size (default 0)
• -off — offset (default 0)
• -of — data file (default do not save)
• -se[0-2] — session handle / attributes (default PWAP)
  • 01 continue

fr fr, that's all the page gives you for the description. it's giving mysterious. 💅

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the full documentation for nvread is maintained as a Texinfo manual 👑 if the info and nvread programs are properly installed at your site, this command:

info nvread

should give you access to the complete manual. go get that full tea, bestie 🌈

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and that's the whole page!! the source/version line is just nvread, the date is July 2017, and the footer calls it NVREAD(1) again because it loves a little encore ✨ bye ily, go read your NV data 💖🎀🦋