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

# acpixtract(1)

ACPICA source code conversion utility

## NAME

acpixtract - ACPICA source code conversion utility

## SYNOPSIS

**acpixtract** \[*\<option\>*...*\]* \<acpidump-file\>

## DESCRIPTION

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

**acpixtract** extracts binary ACPI tables from the output of the **acpidump** command (see the **pm-tools** package).  A default invocation will extract the DSDT and all SSDTs.

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

## OPTIONS

- **-a**

  Extract all tables, not just DSDT/SSDT

- **-l**

  List table summaries, do not extract

- **-s \<signature\>**

  Extract all tables with \<signature\>

## AUTHOR

acpixtract 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).