egk-tool(1)

egk-tool1

Displays information on the german electronic health card (elektronische gesundheitskarte, egk)

Usage

egk-tool [OPTIONS]

Overview

The egk-tool utility is used to display information stored on the German elektronic health card (elektronische Gesundheitskarte, eGK).

Options

--help, -h

Print help and exit.

--version, -V

Print version and exit.

--reader arg, -r arg

Number of the reader to use. By default, the first reader with a present card is used. If arg is an ATR, the reader with a matching card will be chosen.

--verbose, -v

Causes egk-tool to be more verbose. Specify this flag several times to be more verbose.

'Gesundheitsanwendung', Health Care Application (HCA)

--pd

Show 'Persönliche Versichertendaten' (XML).

--vd

Show 'Allgemeine Versichertendaten' (XML).

--gvd

Show 'Geschützte Versichertendaten' (XML).

--vsd-status

Show 'Versichertenstammdaten-Status'.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13
  5. Arch

Authors

egk-tool was written by Frank Morgner <[email protected]>.

From opensc 0.27.1-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.