affsegment(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, meet affsegment(1), the segment manipulation tool 💅🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

affsegment [options] file1.aff [file2.aff ...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so this is a segment manipulation tool 🫶

this file is part of the AFFLIBv3, which provides AFF ✨

AFF is an open and extensible file format for storing disk images and their associated metadata 💾 it's super useful in lots of scenarios, like computer forensics investigations 🔍 literally the whole vibe is "store the disk, keep the receipts" 💅

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

Options

• -c — create AFF files if they don't exist yet 🌱
• -ssegval — sets the value of a segment. you can repeat it 🔁
• -psegname — prints the contents of the segment name for each file 🖨️
• -V — just prints the version number and exits. quick and iconic 👑
• -dname — deletes segment name 🗑️
• -h, -? — prints the help message. the "I'm lost" button 🙈
• -Q — interprets 8-byte segments as a 64-bit value 🔢
• -A — prints the 32-bit arg instead of the segment value 🎯
• -x — prints the segment as a hex string 🧚

Setting the segment values

• -sname=- — takes the new value of segment name from stdin ⌨️
• -sname=val — sets segment name to be val 💖
• -sname=<val — sets segment name to be the contents of the file val 📁

Setting the segment args

• -sname/arg — sets segment name's arg to be arg. you can repeat it too 🔁

Setting both the segment value and the arg

• -sname/arg=val — sets both the arg and the val for segment name 💅
• -sname/arg=<file — sets the arg, and takes the contents from the file file 📂
• -sname/arg=- — sets the arg of segment name, and takes the contents from stdin 🫧

🔥 NOTES 🔥

⚠️ bestie, listen up: all deletions happen first, and then all updates. Don't specify the same segment twice on one command line or it's a whole mess 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

affcat(1), affcompare(1), affconvert(1), affcopy(1), affcrypto(1), affdiskprint(1), affinfo(1), affix(1), affrecover(1), affsign(1), affstats(1), affuse(1), affverify(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 others are totally allowed to use it too 🫶

that's the tea, bestie 💖 AFFSEGMENT 3.7.4, Oct 2014, affsegment(1) 🌸✨