NAME

       icat - Output the contents of a file based on its inode number.

SYNOPSIS

       icat  [-hrsvV]  [-f  fstype  ]  [-i  imgtype  ] [-o imgoffset ] [-b dev_sector_size] image
       [images] inode

DESCRIPTION

       icat opens the named image(s) and copies the file  with  the  specified  inode  number  to
       standard output.

ARGUMENTS

       -f fstype
              Specifies  the  file  system type.  Use '-f list' to list the supported file system
              types.  If not given, autodetection methods are used.

       -h     Skip over holes in sparse files, so that absolute address information is lost. This
              option saves space when copying sparse files.

       -r     Use file recovery techniques if the file is deleted.

       -s     Include the slack space in the output.

       -i imgtype
              Identify  the type of image file, such as raw.  Use '-i list' to list the supported
              types.  If not given, autodetection methods are used.

       -o imgoffset
              The sector offset where the file system starts in the image.

       -b dev_sector_size
              The size, in bytes, of the underlying device sectors.  If not given, the  value  in
              the image format is used (if it exists) or 512-bytes is assumed.

       -v     Enable verbose mode, output to stderr.

       -V     Display version

       image [images]
              The  disk  or  partition  image to read, whose format is given with '-i'.  Multiple
              image file names can be given if the image is split  into  multiple  segments.   If
              only  one  image  file  is given, and its name is the first in a sequence (e.g., as
              indicated by  ending  in  '.001'),  subsequent  image  segments  will  be  included
              automatically.

       inode  Inode number. icat concatenates the contents of all specified files.

LICENSE

       This software is distributed under the IBM Public License.

HISTORY

       First appeared in The Coroners Toolkit (TCT) 1.0 and is now in The Sleuth Kit.

AUTHOR(S)

       Wietse Venema IBM T.J. Watson Research P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA

       This version is maintained by Brian Carrier (carrier at sleuthkit at org).

       Send documentation updates to <doc-updates at sleuthkit dot org>

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