FWUPDAGENT

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: March 2021
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NAME

fwupdagent - Firmware updating agent  

DESCRIPTION

 

Usage:

fwupdagent [OPTIONā.¦]
get-devices
Get all devices and possible releases
get-updates
Gets the list of updates for connected hardware
get-upgrades
Alias to get-updates
security
Gets the host security attributes
 

Help Options:

-h, --help
Show help options
 

Application Options:

-v, --verbose
Show extra debugging information
--force
Override warnings and force the action

This tool can be used from other tools and from shell scripts.  

SCRIPTING

A variety of client tools are provided by fwupd. Not all tools are suggested to be scripted.

fwupdmgr is a command line fwupd client intended to be used interactively. The output between versions of fwupd is not guaranteed to be stable. Commands that succesfully execute will return "0". Commands that have no actions but succesfully execute will return "2".

fwupdagent is a command line fwupd client intended to be used by scripts. The output is JSON and guaranteed to be stable. Commands that succesfully execute will return "0".


 

Index

NAME
DESCRIPTION
Usage:
Help Options:
Application Options:
SCRIPTING