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+.\" Title: nvme-nvm-id-ctrl
+.\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://docbook.sf.net/el/author]
+.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
+.\" Date: 02/18/2021
+.\" Manual: NVMe Manual
+.\" Source: NVMe
+.\" Language: English
+.\"
+.TH "NVME\-NVM\-ID\-CTRL" "1" "02/18/2021" "NVMe" "NVMe Manual"
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" * Define some portability stuff
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673
+.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html
+.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
+.el .ds Aq '
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" * set default formatting
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" disable hyphenation
+.nh
+.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only)
+.ad l
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE *
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.SH "NAME"
+nvme-nvm-id-ctrl \- Send NVMe Identify Controller, return NVM command set structure
+.SH "SYNOPSIS"
+.sp
+.nf
+\fInvme nvm\-id\-ctrl\fR <device> [\-o <fmt> | \-\-output\-format=<fmt>]
+.fi
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.sp
+For the NVMe device given, sends the NVM command set\(cqs identify controller command and provides the result and returned structure\&.
+.sp
+The <device> parameter is mandatory and may be either the NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0), or a namespace block device (ex: /dev/nvme0n1)\&.
+.sp
+On success, the data structure returned by the device will be decoded and displayed in one of several ways\&.
+.SH "OPTIONS"
+.PP
+\-o <format>, \-\-output\-format=<format>
+.RS 4
+Set the reporting format to
+\fInormal\fR,
+\fIjson\fR, or
+\fIbinary\fR\&. Only one output format can be used at a time\&.
+.RE
+.SH "EXAMPLES"
+.sp
+.RS 4
+.ie n \{\
+\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
+.\}
+.el \{\
+.sp -1
+.IP \(bu 2.3
+.\}
+Has the program interpret the returned buffer and display the known fields in a human readable format:
+.sp
+.if n \{\
+.RS 4
+.\}
+.nf
+# nvme nvm\-id\-ctrl /dev/nvme0
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
+.RE
+.sp
+.RS 4
+.ie n \{\
+\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
+.\}
+.el \{\
+.sp -1
+.IP \(bu 2.3
+.\}
+Show the output in json format
+.sp
+.if n \{\
+.RS 4
+.\}
+.nf
+# nvme nvm\-id\-ctrl /dev/nvme0 \-o json
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
+.RE
+.SH "NVME"
+.sp
+Part of nvme\-cli