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affinfo(1)


NAME

   affinfo - print information about an AFF file

SYNOPSIS

   affinfo [options] infile

DESCRIPTION

   Print information about an AFF file.

   This file is part of the AFFLIBv3, that provides AFF.

   AFF  is  an  open  and  extensible file format to store disk images and
   associated metadata. It is useful in  several  scenaries,  as  computer
   forensics investigations.

OPTIONS

   General options:

          -a     Print   ALL   segments   (normally   data   segments  are
                 suppressed).

          -b     Print how many bad blocks in each segment (implies -a).

          -i     Identify the files; don't do info on them.

          -w     Wide output; print more than 1 line if necessary.

          -s <segment>
                 Just print information about 'segment' (may be repeated).

          -m     Validate MD5 hash of entire image.

          -S     Validate SHA1 hash of entire image.

          -v     Validate the hash of each page (if present).

          -y     Don't print segments of lengths 16 and 20 as hex.

          -p<passphrase>
                 Specify <passphrase> to decrypt a file.

          -l     Just print the segment names and exit

          -V     Just print the version number and exit.

   Preview Options:

          -X     No data preview; just print the segment names.

          -x     Print binary values in hex (default is ASCII).

   Misc:

          -d     Debug.

          -A     If infile is a device, print the number  of  sectors  and
                 sector size to stdout in XML.

SEE ALSO

   affcat(1),   affcompare(1),  affconvert(1),  affcopy(1),  affcrypto(1),
   affdiskprint(1), affix(1),  affrecover(1),  affsegment(1),  affsign(1),
   affstats(1), affuse(1), affverify(1), affxml(1)

AUTHOR

   The  AFFLIB  was  written  by Simson L. Garfinkel <simsong@acm.org> and
   Basis Technology, Inc.

   This  manual  page  was   written   by   Joao   Eriberto   Mota   Filho
   <eriberto@debian.org>  for  the  Debian  project  (but  may  be used by
   others).



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