evtexport1

Usage

Overview

evtexport is a utility to export items stored in a Windows Event Log (EVT)

evtexport is part of the libevt package. libevt is a library to access the Windows Event Log (EVT) format

source is the source file.

The options are as follows:

-c codepage

specify the codepage of ASCII strings, options: ascii, windows-874, windows-932, windows-936, windows-949, windows-950, windows-1250, windows-1251, windows-1252 (default), windows-1253, windows-1254, windows-1255, windows-1256, windows-1257 or windows-1258

-h

shows this help

-l log_file

specify the file in which to log information about the exported items

-m mode

export mode, option: all, items (default), recovered 'all' exports the (allocated) items and recovered items, 'items' exports the (allocated) items and 'recovered' exports the recovered items

-p message_files_path

search PATH for the resource files (default is the current working directory)

-r registy_files_path

name of the directory containing the SOFTWARE and SYSTEM (Windows) Registry file

-s system_file

filename of the SYSTEM (Windows) Registry file This option overrides the path provided by -r

-S software_file

filename of the SOFTWARE (Windows) Registry file This option overrides the path provided by -r

-t event_log_type

event log type, options: application, security, system if not specified the event log type is determined based on the filename.

-v

verbose output to stderr

-V

print version

Environment

None

Files

None

Examples

# evtexport evtexport -p c/ -r c/Windows/System32/config/ c/Windows/System32/config/AppEvent.Evt
evtexport 20120910
...

Diagnostics

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.