---
name: "acpinames"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "acpica-tools"
version: "20181213-1"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/acpinames"
---

# acpinames(1)

ACPI name space dump utility

## NAME

acpinames - ACPI name space dump utility

## SYNOPSIS

**acpinames** \<option\>*...* \<aml-file\>

## DESCRIPTION

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

**acpinames** prints out the complete ACPI name space for an AML file.

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

## OPTIONS

- **-? \[\<name-prefix\>\]**

  Display this help message

## AUTHOR

acpinames 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).