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==icat==
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Version 2.09<br />
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This software is distributed under the IBM Public License found on the [[Licenses]] page.
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===Purpose===
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icat outputs the contents of a file in a disk image to STDOUT. It is similar to cat on a local file, but it takes a meta data structure address as input instead of a file name.  
Opens the named image(s) and copies the file with  the  specified inode number to standard output.
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===Usage===
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* [http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/man/icat.html Automatically Updated man Page]
icat [-hrsvV]  [-f  fstype] [-i imgtype] [-o imgoffset] image [images] inode
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===Options===
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{| border="1" cellpadding="5"
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!Switch
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!Purpose
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| -f fstype || Specifies the file system type. Use the -? argument to view all supported types.  If not given, the default type for the platform is used.
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| -h || Skip over holes in sparse files, so that absolute address information is lost. This option saves space when copying sparse files.
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| -r || Use file recovery techniques if the file is deleted.
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| -s || Include the slack space in the output.
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| -i imgtype || Identify  the  type of image file, such as raw or split.  Raw is the default.
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| -o imgoffset || The sector offset where the file system starts in the image. Non-512 byte sectors can be specified using ’@’ (32@2048).
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| -v || Enable verbose mode, output to stderr.
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| -V || Display version
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| image [images] || One  (or more if split) disk or partition images whose format is given with ’-i’.
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| inode || Inode number. icat concatenates the contents of all specified files.
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===Example===
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'''No examples available.'''
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===History===
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First appeared in The Coroners Toolkit (TCT) 1.0 and is now in The Sleuth Kit.
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===Author===
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Wietse Venema
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IBM T.J. Watson Research
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P.O. Box 704
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Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
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This version is maintained by Brian Carrier (carrier@sleuthkit.org).
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Latest revision as of 18:20, 11 September 2008

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icat outputs the contents of a file in a disk image to STDOUT. It is similar to cat on a local file, but it takes a meta data structure address as input instead of a file name.