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ICAT

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NAME

icat - copy files by inode number

SYNOPSIS

icat [-hHv] [-f fstype] device inode ...

DESCRIPTION

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, for debugging purposes.
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.

BUGS

icat should support more file system types. Right now, support is limited to ext2fs when built on Linux, and ufs when built on Solaris and BSD systems.

LICENSE

This software is distributed under the IBM Public License.

AUTHOR(S)

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

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