The
utility connects to the specified Netgraph node of type
HCI
or the first one found if none is specified and attempts to send the specified
command to the HCI Netgraph node or to the associated Bluetooth device.
The
utility will print results to the standard output and error messages to
the standard error.
The options are as follows:
-h
Display usage message and exit.
-N
Show Bluetooth addresses as numbers.
Normally
attempts to resolve Bluetooth addresses, and display them symbolically.
-n HCI_node_name
Connect to the specified HCI Netgraph node.
command
One of the supported commands (see below).
The special command
help
can be used to obtain the list of all supported commands.
To get more information about a specific command use
help command
parameters
One or more optional space separated command parameters.
Many commands require a remote device address as one of the parameters.
The remote device address can be specified as BD_ADDR or a name.
If a name was specified then the
utility will attempt to resolve the name via
bt_gethostbyname3.
