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(New page: Version 2.09 Man Page NAME dcat - Display the contents of disk "chunks" from a forensic image SYNOPSIS dcat [-ahswvV] [-f fstype] [-u unit_size] [-i imgtype] [-o imgoffse...)
 
 
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Version 2.09 Man Page
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NAME
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blkcat is used to output the contents of a specific [[data unit]] in a file system.  It takes a data unit address as input and outputs the contents to STDOUT. It used to be called dcat.
      dcat - Display the contents of disk "chunks" from a forensic image
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SYNOPSIS
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* [http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/man/blkcat.html Automatically Updated man Page]
      dcat  [-ahswvV]  [-f fstype] [-u unit_size] [-i imgtype] [-o imgoffset]
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      image [images] unit_addr [num]
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DESCRIPTION
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      dcat displays num data units (default is  one)  starting  at  the  unit
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      address unit_addr from image to stdout in different formats (default is
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      raw).  The image should be created using dd(1).
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      The arguments are as follows:
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      -a    Display the contents in ASCII
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      -f    Specify image as a specific file type. If ’swap’ is given here,
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              the  image  will  be  displayed in pages of size 4096 bytes. If
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              ’raw’ is given, then 512-bytes is used as the default size. The
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              ’-u’  flag  can change the default size.  Use the -? argument to
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              display supported types.  If not given, the default type for the
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              platform is used.
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      -h    Display the contents in hexdump
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      -s    Display  statistics  on  the  image (unit size, file block size,
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              and number of fragments).
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      -u    Specify the size of the default data unit for raw, dls, and swap
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              images.
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      -i imgtype
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              Identify  the  type of image file, such as raw or split.  Raw is
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              the default.
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      -o imgoffset
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              The sector offset where the file system  starts  in  the  image.
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              Non-512 byte sectors can be specified using ’@’ (32@2048).
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      -v    Verbose output to stderr.
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      -V    Display version.
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      -w    Display the contents in an HTML table format.
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      image [images]
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              One  (or more if split) disk or partition images whose format is
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              given with ’-i’.
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      unit_addr
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              Address of the disk unit to display.  The size of a unit on this
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              file system can be determined using the -s option.
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      num    Number of data units to display.
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      The  basic  functionality of dcat can also be achieved using dd(1).  To
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      determine which inode has allocated a given unit, the ifind(1)  command
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      can be used.
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EXAMPLES
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      # dcat -hw image 264 4
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      or
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      # dcat -hw image 264
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SEE ALSO
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      dd(1), ifind(1)
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HISTORY
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      dcat first appeared in TCTUTILs v1.0 as bcat.
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AUTHOR
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      Brian Carrier <carrier@sleuthkit.org>
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Latest revision as of 07:48, 4 January 2010

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blkcat is used to output the contents of a specific data unit in a file system. It takes a data unit address as input and outputs the contents to STDOUT. It used to be called dcat.