NAME¶

esedbexport — exports items stored in an Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) Database (EDB) file

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

esedbexport is a utility to export items stored in an Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) Database (EDB) file

esedbexport is part of the libesedb package. libesedb is a library to access the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) Database File (EDB) format

source is the source file.

The options are as follows:

-c codepage

codepage of ASCII strings, options: ascii, windows-874, windows-932, windows-936, windows-949, windows-950, windows-1250, windows-1251, windows-1252 (default), windows-1253, windows-1254, windows-1255, windows-1256, windows-1257 or windows-1258

-h

shows this help

-l log_file

logs information about the exported items

-m mode

export mode, option: all, tables (default). 'all' exports all the tables or a single specified table with indexes, 'tables' exports all the tables or a single specified table

-t target

specify the basename of the target directory to export to (default is the source filename) esedbexport will add the suffix .export to the basename

-T table_name

exports only a specific table

-v

verbose output to stderr

-V

print version

ENVIRONMENT¶

None

FILES¶

None

EXAMPLES¶

# esedbexport WebCacheV01.dat
esedbexport 20260625

Opening file.
Database type: MSIE WebCache.
Exporting table 1 (MSysObjects) out of 10.
Exporting table 2 (MSysObjectsShadow) out of 10.
Exporting table 3 (MSysUnicodeFixupVer2) out of 10.
Exporting table 4 (Containers) out of 10.
Exporting table 5 (Container_1) out of 10.
Exporting table 17 (LeakFiles) out of 10.
Exporting table 18 (Partitions) out of 10.
Exporting table 21 (AppCacheEntry_1) out of 10.
Exporting table 22 (AppCache_1) out of 10.
Exporting table 39 (DependencyEntry_4) out of 10.
Export completed.

DIAGNOSTICS¶

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.

SEE ALSO¶

esedbinfo(1)

AUTHORS¶

Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>

BUGS¶

Please report bugs of any kind on the project issue tracker: https://github.com/libyal/libesedb/issues

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 2009-2026, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.