MSIECFINFO(1)

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💖 msiecfinfo — the vibe check for your index.dat 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the LOCAL manual section, and it's literally the cutest little detective for your MSIE Cache File 💅

✨ NAME ✨

msiecfinfo — determines information about a MSIE Cache File (index.dat)

like. it just... tells you stuff about it. no cap. 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

msiecfinfo [-c codepage] [-ahvV] source

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

msiecfinfo is a utility to determine information about a MSIE Cache File (index.dat). that's it, that's the whole job, and it eats every time 🔥

msiecfinfo is part of the libmsiecf package. and libmsiecf is a library to access the MSIE Cache File (index.dat) format. so like, they're besties. they come as a set. periodt 💜

source is the source file. yes, that's the one you point it at. she needs to know what to look at, she's nosy in the best way 🙈

the options are as follows (get ready, there's only five, we love a low-effort menu):

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -a — shows allocation information. the receipts. the unallocated blocks. the juicy part 👑
  • -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
notice how windows-1252 is the default? she's the main character. the rest are the ensemble cast ✨
  • -h — shows this help. bestie is here to help, always 💖
  • -v — verbose output to stderr. she starts yapping (affectionate) 🗣️
  • -V — print version. identity reveal, iconic ⭐

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

None

like genuinely none. she doesn't need your environment variables, she's self-sufficient 💅

🎀 FILES 🎀

None

no config files, no secret stash, nothing. clean girl aesthetic 🧚

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

okay so here's the moment you've been waiting for, the demo, the runway walk:

# msiecfinfo -a index.dat
msiecfinfo 20100917

MSIE Cache File information:
        File size:                      32768 bytes
        Number of items:                42
        Number of recovered items:      0

Unallocated data blocks:
        00031232 (0x00007a00) - 00032768 (0x00008000) size: 1536

look at her go. 42 items. zero recovered. a little unallocated block just chillin' at the end. it's giving organized 🫶✨

😭 DIAGNOSTICS 😭

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. heads up though: verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation. so if you're not seeing the yapping, it's not you, it's the build 💀

🐛 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 the devs, don't suffer in silence bestie 😭🫶

👑 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, no safety net. she's free and she's honest about it 🙈

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

msiecfexport(1) msiecfrecover(1)

go read those too, they're the extended universe 🦋

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one came from the libmsiecf girlies, dated January 31, 2014 — yeah she's an elder but she still slays 💖✨ mwah, take care, drink water, and always pass -a when you want the tea 🍓💅

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