inode-cat1

Usage

Overview

icat opens the named device and copies the files with the specified inode numbers to standard output.

Arguments:

-f fstype

Specifies the file system type. The default file system type is system dependent. With most UNIX systems the default type is ufs (Berkeley fast file system). With Linux the default type is ext2fs (second extended file system).

-h

Skip over holes in files, so that absolute address information is lost. This option saves space when copying sparse files.

-H (default)

Copy holes in files as null blocks, so that absolute address information is preserved. This option wastes space when copying sparse files.

-v

Enable verbose mode, output to stderr.

-V

Enable verbose mode, output to stdout.

device

Disk special file, or regular file containing a disk image. On UNIX systems, raw mode disk access may give better performance than block mode disk access. LINUX disk device drivers support only block mode disk access.

inode

Inode number. icat concatenates the contents of all specified files.

Author(s)

Wietse Venema
IBM T.J. Watson Research
P.O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA