OpenSC Tools

OpenSC includes a number of command line tools for exploring smart cards, testing, automatisation and debugging. The tools are (with links to the online man pages):

low level tools

"-n" you can see if opensc identifies the card correctly. both is necessary for any other card tool to work.

with commands like ls, get information about files, read and write files and so on. only works on some cards, as not all cards have the required functionality (for example no "ls"/"dir" command).

high level tools

card specific tools

development tools