ICAT(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   ICAT(1)

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 or split.  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]
	      One (or more if split) disk or partition images whose format is given with '-i'.

       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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