---
name: "nfc-list"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libnfc"
version: "1.8.0-4"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nfc-list"
---

# nfc-list(1)

list NFC targets

## NAME

nfc-list - list NFC targets

## SYNOPSIS

**nfc-list** \[ *options* \]

## DESCRIPTION

**nfc-list** is a utility for listing any available tags like ISO14443-A, FeliCa, Jewel or ISO14443-B (according to the device capabilities). It may detect several tags at once thanks to a mechanism called anti-collision but all types of tags don't support anti-collision and there is some physical limitation of the number of tags the reader can discover.

This tool displays all available information at selection time.

## OPTIONS

- **-v**

  Tells *nfc-list* to be verbose and display detailed information about the targets shown. This includes SAK decoding and fingerprinting is available.

- **-t** *X*

  Polls only for types according to bitfield value of *X*:

     1: ISO14443A\
      2: Felica (212 kbps)\
      4: Felica (424 kbps)\
      8: ISO14443B\
     16: ISO14443B'\
     32: ISO14443B-2 ST SRx\
     64: ISO14443B-2 ASK CTx\
    128: ISO14443B iClass\
    256: ISO14443A-3 Jewel\
    512: ISO14443A-2 NFC Barcode

  So 1023 (default) polls for all types. Note that if 16, 32, 64 or 128 then 8 is selected too.

## EXAMPLE

For an ISO/IEC 14443-A tag (i.e.Mifare DESFire):

    ATQA (SENS\_RES): 03  44  \
        UID (NFCID1): 04  45  35  01  db  24  80  \
       SAK (SEL\_RES): 20  \
           ATS (ATR): 75  77  81  02  80

## BUGS

Please report any bugs on the **libnfc** issue tracker at:\
 **https://github.com/nfc-tools/libnfc/issues**

## LICENCE

**libnfc** is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 3.\
 **libnfc-utils** and **libnfc-examples** are covered by the the BSD 2-Clause license.

## AUTHORS

Roel Verdult \<roel@libnfc.org\>, \
 Romain Tartière \<romain@libnfc.org\>, \
 Romuald Conty \<romuald@libnfc.org\>.

This manual page was written by Romuald Conty \<romuald@libnfc.org\>. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later).