afconvert(1)
NAME
afconvert - convert between AFF and raw file formats
SYNOPSIS
afconvert [options] file1 [file2 ...]
OPTIONS
General options:
-q Quiet mode. Don't ask questions, don't print status.
AFF output options:
- -a ext use 'ext' for aff files (default is aff) (use .afd for AFD
- files)
- -M nnn set maximum size of output file. Suffix with g, m or k.
- -s nnnn
- set the image_pagesize (default 16777216)
- -x don't compress AFF file.
- -O dir use 'dir' as the output directory
- -o file
- output to 'file' (can only convert one at a time) File is AFF is file ends .aff; otherwise assumes raw.
- -Xn Set compression to n; default is 7
- Raw output options:
- -r force raw output.
- -e ext use 'ext' for the raw files (default raw) (implies -r)
- Dangerous input options:
- -z zap; delete the output file if it already exists.
- -Z Do not automatically probe for gzip/bzip2 compression.
- -y Always answer yes/no questions 'yes.'
- -v Just print the version number and exit.
EXAMPLES
- convert file1.iso to file1.aff
- afconvert file1.iso
- batch convert files
- afconvert file1.iso file2.iso file3.iso
- convert image.aff to image.iso
- afconvert -r -e iso image.aff
AUTHOR
afconvert is part of afflib and was written by Simson L. Garfinkel
- This manual page was written by Kenny Duffus <kenny@duffus.org> for
Ubuntu but may be used by others.