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1.TH "reglookup" 1 "" ""
2
3.SH NAME
4.RS
5reglookup \- Windoze NT/2K/XP registry reader/lookup tool
6.RE
7
8.SH SYNOPSIS
9.RS
10reglookup [options] <REGISTRY_FILE>
11.RE
12
13.SH DESCRIPTION
14.RS
15reglookup is designed to read Windoze registry elements and
16print them out to stdout.  It has several filtering options to
17narrow the focus of the output.
18.RE
19
20.SH OPTIONS
21.RS
22\-f<PREFIX_FILTER>     
23.RS
24Specify a path filter.  Only keys/values under this
25registry path will be output.
26.RE
27.RE
28
29.RS
30\-k     TODO
31.RE
32
33.RS
34\-p     TODO
35.RE
36
37.RS
38\-s     TODO
39.RE
40
41.RS
42\-t<TYPE_FILTER>
43.RS
44Specify a type filter.  Only elements which match this
45registry data type will be printed.  Acceptable values
46are: SZ,EXPAND_SZ,BIN,DWORD,MULTI_SZ,KEY
47.RE
48.RE
49
50.RS
51\-v     Verbose output.
52.RE
53
54.RS
55REGISTRY_FILE
56.RS
57Required argument.  Specifies the location of the
58registry file to read.  Typically, these files will be
59found on a Windoze partition under
60%SystemRoot%/system32/config.
61.RE
62.RE
63
64.SH EXAMPLES
65.RS
66To read and print an entire registry:
67.RE
68
69.RS
70\fBreglookup /mnt/win/c/WINNT/system32/config/system\fR
71.RE
72
73.RS
74To limit the output to just those entries under the Services
75key:
76.RE
77
78.RS
79\fBreglookup \-f'$$$PROTO.HIV/ControlSet002/Services' /mnt/win/c/WINNT/system32/config/system\fR
80.RE
81
82.RS
83To limit the output to all registry values of type BIN:
84.RE
85
86.RS
87\fBreglookup \-tBIN /mnt/win/c/WINNT/system32/config/system\fR
88.RE
89
90.RS
91And to limit the output to BIN values under the Services key:
92.RE
93
94.RS
95\fBreglookup \-tBIN \-f'$$$PROTO.HIV/ControlSet002/Services' /mnt/win/c/WINNT/system32/config/system\fR
96.RE
97
98.SH BUGS
99.RS
100Path filtering is currently a slow hack.
101.RE
102
103.RS
104The current incarnation of this program has only been tested on
105Windoze 2000.
106.RE
107
108.RS
109You'll notice that registry paths aren't all the same as the
110ones the equivalents you see in Windoze.  Don't ask me why that
111is.  I just work here.
112.RE
113
114.RS
115This software should be considered unstable at this time.
116.RE
117
118.SH CREDITS
119.RS
120This program is based on editreg.c by Richard Sharpe.
121.RE
122
123.RS
124It has since been modified by Timothy D. Morgan.
125.RE
126
127.RS
128Please see source code for a full list of copyrights.
129.RE
130
131.SH LICENSE
132.RS
133Please see the file "LICENSE" included with this software
134distribution.
135.RE
136
137.RS
138This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
139but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
140MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
141GNU General Public License version 2 for more details.
142.RE
143
144.\" man code generated by txt2tags 2.0 (http://txt2tags.sf.net)
145.\" cmdline: txt2tags --mask-email -t man -o man/man1/reglookup.1 reglookup.txt
146
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