1affcompare(1) compare the contents of an ISO file to an AFF file affcompare(1)
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NAME

6       affcompare - compare the contents of an ISO file to an AFF file
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SYNOPSIS

9       affcompare [options] file1 file2
10       affcompare [options] -r dir1 dir2
11       affcompare [options] -s file1 file2...
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DESCRIPTION

14       Compare the contents of an ISO file to an AFF file. Optionally, if they
15       are equal, delete the ISO file.
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17       This file is part of the AFFLIBv3, that provides AFF.
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19       AFF is an open and extensible file format  to  store  disk  images  and
20       associated  metadata.  It  is  useful in several scenaries, as computer
21       forensics investigations.
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OPTIONS

24       Fast options (compare segments but not their contents):
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26              -e     Just report about existence (use with -r).
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28              -p     Report about the results of preening.
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30              -r     dir1 dir2  Recursively compare what's in dir1 with  dir2,
31                     and report what's in dir1 that's not in dir2.
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33              -s     Check to see if named files are on Amazon S3.
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37              -a     Print what's the same (all).
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39              -b     Print the numbers of differing sectors.
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41              -c     Print the contents of differing sectors.
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43              -h     Show help page.
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45              -m     Just report about the data (ignore metadata).
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47              -P <n> Just examine the differences on page 'n'.
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49              -q     Quiet. No output except for errors.
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51              -V     Just print the version number and exit.
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53              -v     Verbose. Show each file as it is compared.
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EXAMPLES

56       Compare file1 with file2:
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58           $ affcompare file1.aff file2.aff
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60       Compare similarly-named files in dir1/ and dir2/:
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64       Reports  if  files  were successfully copied to Amazon S3 checking only
65       for existence, not reading back the bytes (because all writes to S3 are
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68           $ affcompare -s file1.aff file2.aff file3.aff
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70       Compare f1.aff with dir1/f1.aff and f2.aff with dir2/f2.aff:
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72           $ affcompare f1.aff f2.aff dir1/
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74       note that dir1/ must end with a slash.
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76       Compare file.aff and file.img:
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78           $ affcompare -b img file.aff
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80       Compare file1.aff, file1.img, etc.:
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82           $ affcompare -b img file1.aff file2.aff file3.aff
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84       Report AFF files in dir1 but not in dir2:
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86           $ affcompare -re dir1 dir2
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88       Report AFF files in dir1 but not on S3 (low bandwidth):
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90           $ affcompare -rse dir1 s3:///
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92       Report AFF files in dir1 but incomplete on on S3 (more bandwidth):
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94           $ affcompare -rs dir1 s3:///
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SEE ALSO

97       affcat(1),  affconvert(1),  affcopy(1),  affcrypto(1), affdiskprint(1),
98       affinfo(1), affix(1), affrecover(1), affsegment(1),  affsign(1),  affs‐
99       tats(1), affuse(1), affverify(1), affxml(1)
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AUTHOR

102       The  AFFLIB  was  written  by Simson L. Garfinkel <simsong@acm.org> and
103       Basis Technology, Inc.
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105       This manual page  was  written  by  Joao  Eriberto  Mota  Filho  <erib‐
106       erto@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
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