REGED(8)

💅 REGED(8) — the manual, but make it a group chat 💅

System Manager's Manual energy, bestie. Sit down, grab a boba, we're talking about reged. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

reged — a utility to export/import and edit a Windows registry hives 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

reged [options] -x<registryhivefile><prefixstring><key><output.reg>

reged [options] -I<registryhivefile><prefixstring><input.reg>

reged [options] -e<registryhivefile>

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so, this manual page documents reged briefly. And listen — this page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program literally does not have a manual page. So this is the page. We're the page. 😭

reged is the interactive command line utility that can be used to export, import or edit a Microsoft Windows registry hive. That's the whole vibe. Main character energy, honestly. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h — shows you a lil summary of the options. The "help me bestie" flag. 🙈
• -x <registryhivefile> <prefixstring> <key> <output.reg> — exports parts of a hive file out to a text registry (.reg) file. The <prefixstring> tells it which part of the registry hive to dump (for example HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE). The <key> parameter defines the key to dump, and yes it does it recursively. You can use \ or \\ to list all the keys in the hive file. 💫

Only one hive file and one .reg file can be defined. One. Not two. Just one. Periodt.

• -I <registryhivefile> <prefixstring> <input.reg> — imports the content of the input.reg file into the registry file. The value <prefixstring> can be any valid prefix, for example it is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE. 📥

Only one .reg and one hive file supported at the same time. Same deal as before.

• -e <registryhive> ... — interactive edit of one or more registry files. Go off, edit your hives. ✏️
• -L — logs all changed filenames to /tmp/changed. When this option is set, the program automatically saves the changes in the hive files without prompting the user. No vibe check, no asking, it just does it.

⚠️ Be careful when using the -L option as a root user in a multiuser system. The filename is fixed and this can be used by malicious users (dropping a symlink with the same name) to overwrite system files. Not a slay. Genuinely scary. 💀

• -C — automatically saves all changes. Do not prompt the user. Zero questions asked. 🔥
• -N — do not allocate more information, only allow the editing of existing values with same size. If it don't fit, it don't sit. 🙅
• -E — do not expand the hive file (safe mode). Cozy mode. 🧚
• -t — prints debug information of allocated blocks. Nerdy and we love her for it. 🎀
• -v — prints verbose information and debug messages. She will NOT stop talking and honestly? Respect. 🌈

💀 KNOWN BUGS 💀

There are many unknown bugs. If you find bugs please report them to the author. Bestie is collecting them like Pokémon cards, send yours in. 🍓

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• chntpwd
• samusrgrp
• sampasswd

You will find more information available on how this program works, in the text files /usr/share/doc/chntpw/README.txt and /usr/share/doc/chntpw/MANUAL.txt. Homework, but make it optional. iykyk. 📚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This program was written by Petter N Hagen. 👑

This manual page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Generous queen behavior. 🫶

And that's the whole page, bestie — written under the System Manager's Manual umbrella, dated the 6th August 2014, and yeah, the title page still says REGED(8) at the top and bottom like a lil signature. Slay, go edit some hives, stay safe with that -L flag, mwah. 💅✨🎀