msiinfo(1)

📦 version 0.106, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 msiinfo — the manual page, but make it slay 💖

okay bestie, welcome to msiinfo(1) from the General Commands Manual section — this is your girl's whole personality in one page. grab a snack, we're inspecting Windows Installer packages and we're gonna be so normal about it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

msiinfo — display and extract information from Windows Installer packages. it's giving "peek behind the curtain but make it forensic" 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

msiinfo <subcommand> [<options>]
msiinfo -h|--help
msiinfo -v|--version

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically msiinfo is the friend who can look inside a Windows Installer package and pull stuff out. multiple ways, multiple vibes — inspecting, extracting, all of it. no cap, it's a whole toolkit 🫶

👑 GLOBAL OPTIONS 👑

these work no matter what, they're the main characters ✨

  • -h, --help — prints a help message and then dips. that's it, that's the whole job 💖
  • -v, --version — prints the program version and exits. quick little flex, love that for us 🌟

🧚 SUBCOMMANDS 🧚

this is where the actual magic happens, bestie. pick your fighter:

  • help [<subcommand>] — prints help information for either msiinfo globally, or for the specific subcommand you named, if you named one. yes, help has a help. iconic behavior 🌈
  • streams <package> — lists the streams in the given package. stream check, vibe check, same thing honestly 💧
  • tables <package> — lists the tables in the given package. it's giving spreadsheet reveal 🔥
  • extract <package> <stream> — extracts the given stream from a package, and outputs it to the standard output. right to stdout, no extra steps, we love efficiency 🎀
  • export [-s] <package> <table> — exports the given table from a package, and outputs it to standard output — either in tabular form, or, if -s is specified, as SQL statements. choose your format, both are valid 💜
  • suminfo <package> — displays summary information about the given package. the TL;DR of packages, honestly so helpful 😭

💜 AUTHORS 💜

msiinfo was written by Paolo Bonzini for Red Hat, Inc. 🫶

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 — she's generous like that, we love a sharing queen ✨). It was last modified for msitools version 0.93.

and that's the whole page, bestie 💅 the msitools crew shipped this on December 26, 2014, and it's still out here doing the absolute most. go forth and inspect some packages. slay 🎀💖🦋

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