afcclient(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so the page name is afcclient(1) 🎀, and it's a tool to interact with the AFC/HouseArrest service on a connected device 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

afcclient [OPTIONS] [COMMAND ...]

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

bestie, this utility lets you talk to the AFC/HouseArrest service, which means you get access to parts of the filesystem on an iOS device ✨ main character energy, no cap.

You can use afcclient interactively with a command prompt, or run a single command and exit. Both are giving 💅

💅 COMMANDS 💅

• devinfo — print the device info 📱
• info PATH — print the file attributes of the file at PATH 🔍
• ls PATH — print the directory contents of PATH 📂
• mv OLD NEW — rename the file OLD to NEW ✏️
• mkdir PATH — create a directory at PATH 🍓
• ln [-s] FILE [LINK] — make a (symbolic) link to a file named LINKNAME 🔗

💀 NOTE: this feature has been disabled in newer versions of iOS, so it's lowkey not it anymore.

• rm [-rf] PATH — remove the item at PATH 🗑️
• get [-rf] PATH [LOCALPATH] — transfer the file at PATH from the device to LOCALPATH, or the current directory if you leave it out 📥. If LOCALPATH is a directory, the file gets stored inside that directory 🧚
• put [-rf] LOCALPATH [PATH] — transfer the local file at LOCALPATH to the device at PATH, or the current directory if you leave it out 📤. If PATH is a directory, the file gets stored inside that directory 🧚

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -u, --udid UDID — target one specific device by its UDID 🎯
• -n, --network — connect to a network device

⚠️ Not recommended, bestie! The connection might be terminated at any time 😭

• --container <appid> — access the app container directory of the app with the given appid 📦
• --documents <appid> — access the Documents directory of the app with the given appid 📄
• -h, --help — prints the usage info 🙋
• -d, --debug — enable communication debugging 🐛
• -v, --version — prints the version info 🏷️

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Nikias Bassen 💜

🌈 ON THE WEB 🌈

https://libimobiledevice.org

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice

And that's a wrap on afcclient(1), bestie! 🫶💖 The footer just says afcclient(1), so you know exactly which page we just slayed 💅✨