PHDIINFO(1)

📦 version 0~20240508, in debian trixie, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💾 phdiinfo — the manual, but make it cute

okay so bestie, gather round, because we're talking about phdiinfo from the LOCAL manual section (that's phdiinfo(1) to the nerds in the back 💅). She's a tiny little utility and she's literally so useful.

✨ NAME ✨

phdiinfo — determines information about a Parallels Hard Disk image file 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

phdiinfo [-hvV] source

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So phdiinfo is a utility whose whole entire job — her main character era, honestly — is to determine information about a Parallels Hard Disk image file. That's it. That's the gig. 👑

She's part of the libphdi package, and libphdi is a library to access the Parallels Hard Disk image format. So yeah, she's running with a whole squad.

source is the source file. Like, the file you wanna know stuff about. That's her.

The options are as follows:

  • -h — shows this help. the classic. she's telling you how to use her 💁‍♀️
  • -v — verbose output to stderr. she gets chatty, but only on stderr, she's not gonna clutter your actual output, respectful queen
  • -V — print version. so you know exactly which flavor of her you're dealing with ⭐

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

None — she doesn't need your environment variables, she's low maintenance, no cap 🫶

🍓 FILES 🍓

None — no files involved. she just shows up, does the thing, and leaves ✨

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

okay so here's her in action, watch:

# phdiinfo DiskDescriptor.xml
phdiinfo 20151220

Parallels Hard Disk image information:
        Media size:             536870912 bytes

see?? iconic behaviour. she tells you what version of herself she is, then spills the tea about your image, including the media size in bytes. ate and left no crumbs 💅

👑 DIAGNOSTICS 👑

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled.

bestie, important: verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation. so like, if you compiled it without that turned on, no amount of -v will make her yap. compilation is the vibe check here, iykyk 😭

💀 BUGS 💀

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

like genuinely, if she's being weird, tell someone, don't just suffer in silence 🙈

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

Copyright (C) 2015-2024, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

  • libphdi

and that's the whole page, bestie!! stay hydrated, run -h when in doubt, and remember: verbose goes to stderr only if it was enabled at compilation. mwah 💖

signing off — this was the phdiinfo page from the libphdi source, dated March 7, 2019. love that for us. bye bestie!! 🦋🌸

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