affinfo(1)

✨ affinfo(1) — print information about an AFF file ✨

🎀 okay so this is the manual page for affinfo 💅 it's the tool you use to print information about an AFF file, and bestie, it's giving precise 😭

🌸 NAME

affinfo — print information about an AFF file 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS

affinfo [options] infile

💜 DESCRIPTION

Okay so this one prints information about an AFF file 🧚 no cap, that's literally the whole job.

This file is part of the AFFLIBv3, which is what provides AFF ✨

AFF is an open and extensible file format for storing disk images and their associated metadata 💾 it's lowkey iconic for computer forensics investigations, since it's useful in several scenarios 🔍 (the original spells it "scenaries," but we're not about that typo life 🙈)

🍓 OPTIONS

🌈 General options

• -a — Print ALL the segments! Normally the data segments get hidden, but not with this one 👑
• -b — Print how many bad blocks are in each segment. This one implies -a 💀
• -i — Identify the files instead of doing info on them 🔎
• -w — Wide output 📏 if it needs more than one line, it'll print more than one line 🫶
• -s <segment> — Just print information about 'segment'. You can repeat this one as many times as you want 🦋
• -m — Validate the MD5 hash of the entire image 🔐
• -S — Validate the SHA1 hash of the entire image 🔐
• -v — Validate the hash of each page, if present 📄
• -y — Don't print segments of lengths 16 and 20 as hex 🙅‍♀️
• -p<passphrase> — Specify <passphrase> to decrypt a file 🗝️
• -l — Just print the segment names and exit 🏃‍♀️
• -V — Just print the version number and exit 🔢

🎀 Preview Options

• -X — No data preview! Just print the segment names 🙃
• -x — Print binary values in hex. The default is ASCII 🔤

🧁 Misc

• -d — Debug 🐛
• -A — If infile is a device, print the number of sectors and sector size to stdout in XML 🖨️

🫶 SEE ALSO

affcat(1), affcompare(1), affconvert(1), affcopy(1), affcrypto(1), affdiskprint(1), affix(1), affrecover(1), affsegment(1), affsign(1), affstats(1), affuse(1), affxml(1) ✨

👑 AUTHOR

The AFFLIB was written by Simson L. Garfinkel <simsong@acm.org> and Basis Technology, Inc. 💅

This manual page was written by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org> for the Debian project (but it can be used by others too) 🌈

Bestie, that's the whole thing 🥹 this page is from AFFINFO 3.7.4, dated Oct 2014. Stay iconic and keep those segments in check 💖🦋✨