---
name: "msiecfinfo"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libmsiecf-utils"
version: "20181227-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/msiecfinfo"
---

# msiecfinfo(1)

determines information about a MSIE Cache File (index.dat)

## NAME

**msiecfinfo** – determines information about a MSIE Cache File (index.dat)

## SYNOPSIS

**msiecfinfo** \[**-c** *codepage*\] \[**-ahvV**\] *source*

## DESCRIPTION

**msiecfinfo** is a utility to determine information about a MSIE Cache File (index.dat)

**msiecfinfo** is part of the **libmsiecf** package. **libmsiecf** is a library to access the MSIE Cache File (index.dat) format.

*source* is the source file.

The options are as follows:

- **-a**

  shows allocation information

- **-c** *codepage*

  specify the codepage of ASCII strings, options: ascii, windows-874, windows-932, windows-936, windows-949, windows-950, windows-1250, windows-1251, windows-1252 (default), windows-1253, windows-1254, windows-1255, windows-1256, windows-1257 or windows-1258

- **-h**

  shows this help

- **-v**

  verbose output to stderr

- **-V**

  print version

## ENVIRONMENT

None

## FILES

None

## EXAMPLES

```
# msiecfinfo -a index.dat
msiecfinfo 20100917
MSIE Cache File information:
	File size:			32768 bytes
	Number of items:		42
	Number of recovered items:	0
Unallocated data blocks:
	00031232 (0x00007a00) - 00032768 (0x00008000) size: 1536
```

## DIAGNOSTICS

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.

## BUGS

Please report bugs of any kind to \<joachim.metz@gmail.com\> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libmsiecf

## AUTHOR

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2009-2018, Joachim Metz \<joachim.metz@gmail.com\>. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

## SEE ALSO

[msiecfexport(1)](/msiecfexport/1.md) msiecfrecover(1)