REGFINFO(1)

💖 regfinfo(1) — LOCAL 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're talking about regfinfo and honestly? it eats. it's the local manual for a little utility whose whole entire job is finding out stuff about a Windows NT Registry File (REGF). yes, that REGF. the registry one. iconic behavior only. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

regfinfo — determines information about a Windows NT Registry File (REGF). that's it. that's the gig. she looks at your registry file and tells you the tea ☕✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

regfinfo [-B bodyfile] [-c codepage] [-hHvV] source

like, that's the whole vibe right there. one source, a handful of flags. lowkey elegant ngl 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so regfinfo is a utility to determine information about a Windows NT Registry File (REGF). main character energy, fr fr.

and, important lore: regfinfo is part of the libregf package. and libregf is a library to access the Windows NT Registry File (REGF) format. so yeah, she rolls with a whole crew. the way that a single utility is just out here carrying the family name 😭💜

source is the source file. that's the file you point her at. no file, no info. that's the deal bestie.

The options are as follows:

• -B bodyfile — outputs the key and value hierarchy as a bodyfile. hierarchy, but make it a bodyfile. slay 💖
• -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. that's a whole alphabet of codepages, and yes you read that right — windows-1252 is the default, she picked a fave and she's standing by it 👑
• -h — shows this help. needy? no. helpful? yes. bestie behavior 🫶
• -H — shows the key and value hierarcy 🎀 (that's spelled exactly like that in here, bestie, and we do not gatekeep, iykyk)
• -v — verbose output to stderr. she's chatty and she's telling you all of it 🌈
• -V — print version. quick lil vibe check on which build you're running ✨

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

None

like… none. nothing. no environment variables are out here influencing her. she's unbothered, moisturized, in her lane 💅

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🎀 FILES 🎀

None

none bestie!! no config files, no dotfiles, no secret little cache. nothing to clean up. we love a low-maintenance queen 🌸

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

okay here's her in her natural habitat:

# regfinfo NTUSER.DAT
regfinfo 20201213

Windows NT Registry File information:
        Version:        1.5
        File type:      Registry

look at that. regfinfo 20201213 as the version line, then a whole lil info dump: Version: is 1.5 and File type: is Registry. tiny but mighty. ate and left no crumbs 🍓⭐

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⭐ DIAGNOSTICS ⭐

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

so real talk: turning on -v is necessary but not always sufficient, because verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation. no compiler flag, no extra chatter. the girl has boundaries 💀

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😭 BUGS 😭

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

any kind of bug, bestie. any. don't be shy, don't be scared, just report it. she wants to be better, she's growing 🫶💖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

the legend herself wrote these pages, we simply say thank you 🙏✨

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (C) 2009-2024, 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.

and yes that NO is capital-N capital-O for a reason. no warranty. none. don't come for her if it breaks, that's the whole point of the free software deal, iykyk 💀💅

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• libregf

the whole family. go read that one next, bestie 🦋

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and that's a wrap on regfinfo(1)! she lives in the libregf squad, and this lil manual is dated December 15, 2020 — oldie but a goodie, still serving. periodt 💖✨🎀