DCAT(1)

NAME
dcat - Display the contents of disk "chunks" from a forensic image

SYNOPSIS
dcat [-ahswvV] [-f fstype ] image unit_addr [ size ]

DESCRIPTION
dcat displays size bytes (default unit size is used by default) at the unit address unit_addr from image to stdout in different formats (default is raw). The image should be created using dd(1). The arguments are as follows:

-a  Display the contents in ASCII

-f  Specify image as a specific file type. If 'swap' is given here, the image will be displayed in pages of size 4096 bytes. Use the -? argument to display supported types. If not given, the default type for the platform is used.

-h  Display the contents in hexdump

-s  Display statistics on the image (unit size, file block size, and number of fragments).

-v  Verbose output to stderr.

-V  Display version.

-w  Display the contents in an HTML table format.

image
    Partition image created by dd(1).

unit_addr
    Address of the disk unit to display. The size of a unit on this file system can be determined using the -s option.

size
    Size of data to display (must be a multiple of DEV_BSIZE (typically 512)).

The basic functionality of dcat can also be achieved using dd(1). To determine which inode has allocated a given unit, the ifind(1) command can be used.

EXAMPLES
# dcat -hw image 264 1024 or # dcat -hw image 264

SEE ALSO
dd(1), ifind(1)

HISTORY
dcat first appeared in TCTUTILs v1.0 as bcat.

AUTHOR
Brian Carrier <carrier@sleuthkit.org>