NAME¶

fcat - Output the contents of a file based on its name.

SYNOPSIS¶

fcat [-hRsvV] [-f fstype ] [-i imgtype ] [-o imgoffset ] [-b dev_sector_size] path_of_file image [images]

fcat opens the named image(s) and copies the file at the path path_of_file to standard output.

-f fstype: Specifies the file system type. Use '-f list' to list the supported file system types. If not given, autodetection methods are used.
-h: Skip over holes in sparse files, so that absolute address information is lost. This option saves space when copying sparse files.
-R: Supress errors if a deleted file is being recovered.
-s: Include the slack space in the output.
-i imgtype: Identify the type of image file, such as raw. Use '-i list' to list the supported types. If not given, autodetection methods are used.
-o imgoffset: The sector offset where the file system starts in the image.
-b dev_sector_size: The size, in bytes, of the underlying device sectors. If not given, the value in the image format is used (if it exists) or 512-bytes is assumed.
-v: Enable verbose mode, output to stderr.
-V: Display version
image [images]: The disk or partition image to read, whose format is given with '-i'. Multiple image file names can be given if the image is split into multiple segments. If only one image file is given, and its name is the first in a sequence (e.g., as indicated by ending in '.001'), subsequent image segments will be included automatically.
path_of_file: Path of file to extract the contents of. Surround the path in quotes if there is a space in a file or directory name. Use forward slashes.

This software is distributed under the Common Public License.

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