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6 mactime - Create an ASCII time line of file activity
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9 mactime [-b body ] [-g group file ] [-p password file ] [-i (day|hour)
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13 mactime creates an ASCII time line of file activity based on the body
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15 OUT. The body file must be in the time machine format that is created
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21 Specify the location of a body file. This file must be gener‐
22 ated by a tool such as 'fls -m' or 'ils -m'. The 'mac-robber'
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26 Specify the location of the group file. mactime will display
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30 Specify the location of the passwd file. mactime will display
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34 Specify the location of an index file to write to. The first
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39 -d Display timeline and index files in comma delimited format.
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43 -h Display header info about the session including time range,
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53 The timezone from where the data was collected. The name of
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58 The range of dates to make the time line for. The standard for‐
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64 The changes from mactime in TCT and mac-daddy are distributed under the
65 Common Public License, found in the cpl1.0.txt file in the The Sleuth
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70 A version of mactime first appeared in The Coroner's Toolkit (TCT) (Dan
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75 Brian Carrier <carrier at sleuthkit dot org>
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