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27 .Dd September 29, 2016
32 .Nd UEFI environment variable interaction
43 .Op Fl -fromfile Ar file
53 .Ar name Ns Op = Ns Ar value
56 .Dq Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
58 environment variables.
59 UEFI variables have three part: A namespace, a name and a value.
60 The namespace is a GUID that is self assigned by the group defining the
62 The name is a Unicode name for the variable.
63 The value is binary data.
64 All Unicode data is presented to the user as UTF-8.
66 The following options are available:
68 .It Fl n Ar name Fl -name Ar name
69 Specify the name of the variable to operate on.
72 argument is the GUID of the variable, followed by a dash, followed by the
74 The GUID may be in numeric format, or may be one of the well known
78 .It Fl f Ar file Fl -fromfile Ar file
79 When writing or appending to a variable, take the data for the
82 instead of from the command line.
88 This behavior is not well understood and currently unimplemented.
90 Append the specified value to the UEFI variable rather than replacing
92 .It Fl t Ar attr Fl -attributes Ar attr
93 Specify, in hexadecimal, the attributes for this
95 See section 7.2 (GetVariable subsection, Related Definitions) of the
96 UEFI Specification for hex values to use.
98 Display the variable data as modified ascii: All printable characters
99 are printed, while unprintable characters are rendered as a two-digit
100 hexadecimal number preceded by a % character.
102 Display the variable data as binary data.
103 Usually will be used with the
110 Delete the specified variable.
111 May not be used with either the
120 List variable data as a hex dump.
121 .It Fl L Fl -list-guids
122 Lists the well known GUIDs.
123 The names listed here may be used in place of the numeric GUID values.
124 These names will replace the numeric GUID values unless
128 List all the variables.
131 flag is also listed, their values will be displayed.
133 Do not display the variable name.
135 Print the value of the variable.
136 .It Fl d Fl -print-decimal
137 Treat the value of the variable as a number and print it as a
139 This is currently unimplemented.
140 .It Fl R Fl -raw-guid
141 Do not substitute well known names for GUID numeric values in output.
143 Write (replace) the variable specified with the value specified.
147 environment variable.
148 .It Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value
153 This is not yet implemented.
158 program is intended to be compatible (strict superset) with a program
159 of the same name included in the Red Hat libefivar package.
163 Appendix A of the UEFI specification has the format for GUIDs.
165 .Pq Dq Globally Unique Identifiers
166 have the format described in RFC 4122.