ICAT(1)

NAME
icat - copy files by inode number

SYNOPSIS
icat [-hv] device inode ...

DESCRIPTION
icat opens the named device and copies the files with the specified inode numbers to standard output. icat can operate on both disk special files and on regular files containing a disk image. With UNIX FFS, using a raw disk device gives better efficiency than using a block device. With LINUX ext2fs, icat does not support access via the raw disk device interface. Options:

-h  Skip over holes in files, so that absolute address information is lost. By default, icat copies holes as blocks of null bytes.

-v  Enable verbose mode, for debugging purposes.

BUGS
icat currently supports only one file system type, namely, the default file system type of the system it was compiled for.

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