AFFCAT(1)

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✨ AFFCAT(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

affcat is the one for getting an image's contents out, and it's giving main character. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

affcat — Output contents of an image file to stdout. 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

affcat [options] image [images]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so affcat spits out the contents of an image file straight to stdout 🖨️✨. Image files that aren't raw but that AFF recognizes come out in raw format, so you get the clean version every time 🫶. Missing pages don't get padded, but if you use -n it'll let you know on STDERR that they're gone 👀.

The options are as follows, bestie 🧚:

  • -s name — Output the named segment instead of the image data. Lowkey the move if you just want the metadata 📝.
  • -p nnn — Just output page number nnn. One page, no drama 🍓.
  • -S nnn — Just output data sector number nnn. Sector #0 is the first sector, so start counting from zero, babe 💜.
  • -q — Quiet mode, and it's the default 🤫. Won't print to STDERR if a page gets skipped because it isn't there.
  • -n — Noisy mode 📢. Tells you when pages get skipped. Highkey iconic if you wanna know what's missing.
  • -l — List all the segment names instead of dumping the data 📋.
  • -L — List Long 📏. Prints segment names, lengths, and args all together.
  • -d — Debug mode 🔍. Prints the page numbers to stderr while the data goes to stdout. Like a live feed, periodt.
  • -b — Outputs BADFALG for bad blocks. The default is NULLs, so if you want the bad blocks flagged instead, this is your girl 🚩.
  • -v — Just prints the version number and exits 🔢. In and out, no cap.
  • -r offset:count — Seeks to the given byte offset and outputs count characters in each file 🦄. You can repeat it as many times as you want.
⚠️ Bestie, -b changes what shows up for bad blocks. Default is NULLs, so only use -b if you actually want BADFALG in there instead.

🌈 HISTORY 🌈

affcat first appeared in AFFLIB v1.00 🎂. Iconic origin story, honestly.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Simson Garfinkel <simsong@acm.org> 🫡

This file is a work of a US government employee, so it's in the Public domain 🇺🇸💜. No copyright drama, we love to see it.

Bye bestie! This page is from User Manuals, dated OCT 2008, and it's all about AFFCAT(1). Stay iconic 💖✨🫶

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