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ESEDBINFO(1) General Commands Manual ESEDBINFO(1)

NAME

esedbinfodetermines information about an Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) Database (EDB) file

SYNOPSIS

esedbinfo [-hvV] source

DESCRIPTION

esedbinfo is a utility to determine information about an Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) Database (EDB) file

esedbinfo 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:

shows this help
verbose output to stderr
print version

ENVIRONMENT

None

FILES

None

EXAMPLES

# esedbinfo test.edb
esedbinfo 20260625

Extensible Storage Engine Database information:
        File type:              Database
        Created in format:      0x620,12
        Current format:         0x620,12
        Page size:              8192 bytes

Catalog content:
        Number of tables:       1

Table: 1                        MSysObjects (2)
        Amount of columns:      22
        Column: 1               ObjidTable (1)
        Column: 2               Type (2)
        Column: 3               Id (3)
        Column: 4               ColtypOrPgnoFDP (4)
        Column: 5               SpaceUsage (5)
        Column: 6               Flags (6)
        Column: 7               PagesOrLocale (7)
        Column: 8               RootFlag (8)
        Column: 9               RecordOffset (9)
        Column: 10              LCMapFlags (10)
        Column: 11              KeyMost (11)
        Column: 12              Name (128)
        Column: 13              Stats (129)
        Column: 14              TemplateTable (130)
        Column: 15              DefaultValue (131)
        Column: 16              KeyFldIDs (132)
        Column: 17              VarSegMac (133)
        Column: 18              ConditionalColumns (134)
        Column: 19              TupleLimits (135)
        Column: 20              Version (136)
        Column: 21              CallbackData (256)
        Column: 22              CallbackDependencies (257)

        Amount of indexes:      3
        Index: 1                Id (2)
        Index: 2                Name (4)
        Index: 3                RootObjects (5)

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

esedbexport(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.

June 25, 2026 Linux 6.4.0-150700.53.73-default