---
name: "olecfinfo"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libolecf-utils"
version: "20181231-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/olecfinfo"
---

# olecfinfo(1)

determines information about a Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Compound File (CF)

## NAME

**olecfinfo** – determines information about a Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Compound File (CF)

## SYNOPSIS

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

## DESCRIPTION

**olecfinfo** is a utility to determine information about a Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Compound File (CF)

**olecfinfo** is part of the **libolecf** package. **libolecf** is a library to access the Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Compound File (CF) 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

```
# olecfinfo WordDocument.doc
olecfinfo 20131012
OLE Compound File information:
	Version			: 3.62
	Sector size		: 512
	Short sector size	: 64
Storage and stream items:
Root Entry (768 bytes)
  1Table (42656 bytes)
  WordDocument (4096 bytes)
  96 bytes)
  96 bytes)

Summary information:
...
```

## 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/libolecf/

## AUTHOR

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2008-2018, 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

[olecfexport(1)](/olecfexport/1.md)