---
name: "acpibin"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "acpica-tools"
version: "20250404-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/acpibin"
---

# acpibin(1)

ACPI binary AML file utility

## NAME

acpibin - ACPI binary AML file utility

## SYNOPSIS

**acpibin** \[*\<option\>*...*\]*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page briefly documents the **acpibin** command. The option list is taken from the acpibin interactive help.

**acpibin** is a command provided to perform some basic and common operations on AML binary files.

Much more detailed documentation may be found at http://www.acpica.org/documentation/.

## OPTIONS

- **-c \<file1\> \<file2\>**

  Compare two binary AML files

- **-d \<in\> \<out\>**

  Dump AML binary to text file

- **-e \<sig\> \<in\> \<out\>**

  Extract binary AML table from acpidump file

- **-h \<file\>**

  Display table header for binary AML file

- **-s \<file\>**

  Update checksum for binary AML file

- **-t**

  Terse mode

## AUTHOR

acpibin was written by Robert Moore \<robert.moore@intel.com\>.

This manual page was written by Al Stone \<ahs3@redhat.com\> for the Fedora project (but may be used by others).