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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/efivar/efivar.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/efivar/efivar.8 | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/efivar/efivar.8 b/usr.sbin/efivar/efivar.8 index 07c7366e7dec..7113ba931e46 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/efivar/efivar.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/efivar/efivar.8 @@ -86,8 +86,17 @@ This flag implies .Fl -write unless the .Fl -append -flag is given. -This behavior is not well understood and is currently unimplemented. +or +.Fl -print +flags are given. +This behavior is not well understood and is currently unimplemented +for writes. +When +.Fl -print +is specified, the contents of the file are used as the value to +print using any other specified flags. +This is used primarily for testing purposes for more complicated +variable decoding. .It Fl a Fl -append Append the specified value to the UEFI variable rather than replacing it. |