---
name: "rfdump"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "rfdump"
version: "1.6-9.1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rfdump"
---

# rfdump(1)

Tool to detect RFID-Tags and show their meta information

## NAME

rfdump — Tool to detect RFID-Tags and show their meta information

## SYNOPSIS

**rfdump** \[**-p** */dev/ttyS?\]  \[***--setupreader***\]  \[file.xml\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the*  **rfdump** command.

This manual page was written for the **Debian** distribution  because the original program does not have a manual page.

**rfdump** is a tool to detect RFID-Tags and show  their meta information: Tag ID, Tag Type, manufacturer etc. The User-Data  of a tag can be displayed and modified using either a Hex or an ASCII  editor. In addition, the integrated cookie feature demonstrates how easy it  is for a company to abuse RFID technology to spy on their customers.  **rfdump** works with the ACG Multi-Tag Reader or  similar card reader hardware.

## OPTIONS

- **-h** **--help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-p**

  specify port to use

- **--setupreader**

  setup the card reader

## FILES

- **~/.config/rfdump.ini**

  rfdump configuration file

## FURTHER DOCUMENTATION

Further documentation can be found under **/usr/share/doc/rfdump**.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Meike Reichle \<meike@alphascorpii.net\> for  the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any   later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.