msidump(1)

💖 msidump — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, welcome to msidump(1) from the General Commands Manual ✨ this is the girlie who cracks open Windows Installer packages and shows you everything inside. no gatekeeping here. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

msidump — dump the tables and streams contained in Windows Installer packages 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

msidump [<option> [<option> ...]] <MSI file>

like. options first, MSI file last. the way it should be. periodt.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea 🍓: msidump dumps the tables and the streams contained in Windows Installer packages, aka those .MSI files you keep running into and being confused by. it opens them up and shows you what's inside, no cap.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -t, --tables — dump the tables. this one is the default, so if you don't say anything, this is what you get. she's the main character fr fr.
• -s, --streams — dump the streams. different vibe, same energy.
• -S, --signature — dump the signature, parsed as ASN.1. lowercase -s and uppercase -S are two completely different girls, don't mix them up 😭
• -d, --directory <directory> — dump to the given directory instead of wherever it would've gone otherwise. organised queen behavior 💅
• -h, --help — print a help message and exit. she's always there for you 🫶
• -v, --version — print version information and exit. slay ⭐

lowkey important: more than one of -t, -s or -S may be specified. so you can absolutely stack them. combo move, ate 🔥

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

msidump was written by Marc-André Lureau for Red Hat, Inc. iconic. 👑

this manual page was adapted from the program usage information by Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system — but may be used by others, so everyone can eat. 🍽️ it was last modified for msidump version 0.93.

and that's the whole page bestie 💜 it's giving msitools, dated December 21, 2014 — vintage but still serving ✨ now go dump something, iykyk 🎀