---
name: "cbordump"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "tinycbor-utils"
version: "0.6.1-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cbordump"
---

# cbordump(1)

tinycbor Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) library

## NAME

cbordump - tinycbor Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) library

## SYNOPSIS

**cbordump** \[*OPTION*\]... \[*FILE*\]...

## DESCRIPTION

Interprets FILEs as CBOR binary data and dumps the content to stdout.

## OPTIONS

- **-c**

  Print a CBOR dump (see RFC 7049) (default)

- **-j**

  Print a JSON equivalent version

- **-h**

  Print this help output and exit

### When JSON output is active, the following options are recognized:

- **-M**

  Add metadata so converting back to CBOR is possible

- **-O**

  Convert CBOR tags to JSON objects

- **-S**

  Stringify non-text string map keys

- **-U**

  Convert all CBOR byte strings to Base64url regardless of tags

### When CBOR dump is active, the following options are recognized:

- **-f**

  Show text and byte string fragments

- **-n**

  Show overlong encoding of CBOR numbers and length