PFFINFO(1)

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💅 pffinfo — the local manual page, bestie ✨

okay so you found pffinfo in section 1 of the local manual, and honestly? she's iconic. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

pffinfo — determines information about a Personal Folder File (OST, PAB and PST) 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pffinfo [-c codepage] [-ahvV] source

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

pffinfo is a utility to determine information about a Personal Folder File (OST, PAB and PST). no cap, that's literally her whole job 💅

pffinfo is part of the libpff package. libpff is a library to access the Personal Folder File (OST, PAB and PST) format. so yeah, she's got backup 👑

source is the source file. that's the file you're snooping on, bestie 🕵️‍♀️

The options are as follows:

  • -a — shows allocation information 👀 like, where everything's sitting in the file
  • -c codepage — specify the codepage of ASCII strings. options are: 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 🌈
  • -h — shows this help 🥺 (yes she's helpful like that)
  • -v — verbose output to stderr 🗣️
  • -V — print version ⭐

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

None. literally nothing. empty vibes 🙈

🍓 FILES 🍓

None. also nothing. moving on 💀

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

okay here's the moment, the main character energy:

# pffinfo -a file.pst
pffinfo 20110107

Personal Folder File information:
        File size:              271360 bytes
        File content type:      Personal Storage Tables (PST)
        File type:              64-bit
        Encryption type:        compressible

Message store:
        Folders:                Subtree, Wastbox, Finder
        Password checksum:      N/A

Unallocated index node blocks:
        00018944 (0x00004a00) - 00020480 (0x00005000) size: 1536
      ...
     01051648 (0x00100c00) - 01052160 (0x00100e00) size: 512

Unallocated data blocks:
     00025024 (0x000061c0) - 00025536 (0x000063c0) size: 512
      ...
     01353664 (0x0014a7c0) - 01541120 (0x00178400) size: 187456

look at all that output. she ate 💅✨

🌈 DIAGNOSTICS 🌈

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. and listen — verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation. so if you're not seeing them, that's why, don't come for her 😭

🧚 BUGS 🧚

Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libpff/ — she wants to know, fr fr 🙏

👑 AUTHOR 👑

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz. thank you king 🫡

Copyright (C) 2008-2023, 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. like, zero warranty, none, don't @ her 💀

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

so that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was libpff from March 16, 2019 — go forth and inspect those Personal Folder Files, you absolute icon 🌸💅✨

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