---
name: "ytnef"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ytnef-tools"
version: "2.1.2-1+b2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ytnef"
---

# ytnef(1)

export files from TNEF archives

## NAME

ytnef - export files from TNEF archives

## SYNOPSIS

**ytnef** \[**+-**\]\[**afvF**\] *filename* \[*filename* \[...\]\]

**ytnef** **-h**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **ytnef** program.

This manual page was written for the Debian™ distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**ytnef** is a command line utility which allows parsing and extracting the files contained in TNEF attachments, also known as *winmail.dat* attachments.

## OPTIONS

Option flags are enabled when preceded by minus sign and disabled when preceded by plus sign.

- **-a**\|**+a**

  Enables/disables saving of intermediate files.

- **-f**\|**+f**

  Enables/disables saving of attachments.

- **-v**\|**+v**

  Enables/disables verbose output. This option can be specified multiple times to increase/decrease the verbosity level of output.

- **-F**\|**+F**

  Enables/disables saving of the message body as RTF.

- **-h**

  Displays a brief help message.

## RETURN VALUE

Returns the number of files which failed to be parsed.

## EXAMPLES

- ytnef -v winmail.dat

  Parse *winmail.dat* with verbose output, don't save files.

- ytnef -f . winmail.dat

  Parse and save all attachments in *winmail.dat* to the current directory.

- ytnef -F -f . winmail.dat

  Parse and save all attachments in *winmail.dat* to the current directory, also save the message text to a RTF file.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 Ricardo Mones

This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in */usr/share/common-licenses/GPL*.