MSIECFEXPORT(1)

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💖 MSIECFEXPORT(1) — the local manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk, this is msiecfexport from the LOCAL manual, and it's genuinely one of my fave little utilities. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

msiecfexport — exports items stored in a MSIE Cache File (index.dat)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

msiecfexport [-c codepage] [-l logfile] [-m mode] [-t target] [-hvV]
             source

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so msiecfexport is a utility to export items stored in a MSIE Cache File (index.dat). that's the whole vibe. it gets the stuff out. iconic behavior honestly.

msiecfexport is part of the libmsiecf package. and what is libmsiecf, you ask? it's a library to access the MSIE Cache File (index.dat) format. that's literally its whole job and it does it. 👑

source is the source file. yeah. that one. the index.dat you're pointing at.

The options are as follows:

  • -c codepage — specify the codepage of ASCII strings, options: ascii, windows-874, windows-932, windows-936, windows-949, windows-950, windows-1250, windows-1251, windows-1252 (default), windows-1253, windows-1254, windows-1255, windows-1256, windows-1257 or windows-1258. pick your fighter, but the default is windows-1252 so if you don't care, don't touch it 💖
  • -h — shows this help. it's giving helpful. it's giving "read the instructions bestie"
  • -l logfile — specify the file in which to log information about the exported items. receipts!! 📝
  • -m mode — specify the export mode, option: all, items (default), recovered. and like, to be clear: 'all' exports the (allocated) items and recovered items, 'items' exports the (allocated) items and 'recovered' exports the recovered items. three modes, zero confusion, we love a clean menu ✨
  • -t target — specify the target directory to export to. the default is the source filename followed by .export. cute, predictable, slay.
  • -v — verbose output to stderr. it will yap (affectionately) about what it's doing.
  • -V — print version. gotta know what you're running, periodt.

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

None

🎀 FILES 🎀

None

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

okay here's the moment you've been waiting for. actual footage:

# msiecfexport index.dat
msiecfexport 20111030

Opening file.
Exporting items.
Number of items: 42.

Record type             : URL
Offset range            : 20480 - 20736 (256)
Location                : Cookie:username@domain.com/
Primary time            : Mar 23, 2009 17:23:01.515000
Secondary time          : Nov 29, 2007 11:23:44.906000
Filename                : username@domain[1].txt
Cache directory index   : -2 (0xfe)

      ...
Exporting recovered items.
Number of recovered items: 0.

Export completed.

look at that output. Number of items: 42. the number of items is 42. no notes. 🙈

🔥 DIAGNOSTICS 🔥

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. and heads up bestie: verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation. so if you're not seeing the yapping, that's not a you problem, that's a build-time situation. 😭

💀 BUGS 💀

Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libmsiecf/

fr fr, if something's broken, tell them. don't just suffer in silence.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

Copyright (C) 2009-2018, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

no warranty, no promises, not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. say it louder for the people in the back 📢

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

msiecfinfo(1)

and that's the page!! this one came from the libmsiecf manual, dated January 31, 2014. old but absolutely still serving 💅✨ bye bestie, go export something 🦋

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