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FWUPDAGENT(1) User Commands FWUPDAGENT(1)

fwupdagent - Firmware updating agent

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

Show help options

Show extra debugging information
Override warnings and force the action

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

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".

May 2021 fwupdagent 1.5.7