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afcclient(1) General Commands Manual afcclient(1)

NAME

afcclient - Interact with AFC/HouseArrest service on a connected device.

SYNOPSIS

afcclient [OPTIONS] [COMMAND ...]

DESCRIPTION

Utility to interact with AFC/HouseArrest service. This allows access to parts of the filesystem on an iOS device.

afcclient can be used interactively with a command prompt, or run a single command and exit.

COMMANDS

print device information
print file attributes of file at PATH
print directory contents of PATH
rename file OLD to NEW
create directory at PATH
Create a (symbolic) link to file named LINKNAME. NOTE: This feature has been disabled in newer versions of iOS.
remove item at PATH
transfer file at PATH from device to LOCALPATH, or current directory if omitted. If LOCALPATH is a directory, the file will be stored inside the directory.
transfer local file at LOCALPATH to device at PATH, or current directory if omitted. If PATH is a directory, the file will be stored inside the directory.

OPTIONS

target specific device by UDID
connect to network device (not recommended, since the connection might be terminated at any time)
Access the app container directory of the app with given appid
Access the Documents directory of the app with given appid
Prints usage information
Enable communication debugging
Prints version information

AUTHOR

Nikias Bassen

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https://libimobiledevice.org

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice