NAME¶

evtxexport — exports items stored in a Windows XML EventViewer Log (EVTX) file

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

evtxexport is a utility to export items stored in a Windows XML EventViewer Log (EVTX) file

evtxexport is part of the libevtx package. libevtx is a library to access the Windows XML EventViewer Log (EVTX) file

source is the source file.

The options are as follows:

-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

-f format

output format, options: xml, text (default)

-h

shows this help

-l log_file

specify the file in which to log information about the exported items

-m mode

export mode, option: all, items (default), recovered 'all' exports the (allocated) items and recovered items, 'items' exports the (allocated) items and 'recovered' exports the recovered items

-p message_files_path

search PATH for the resource files (default is the current working directory)

-r registy_files_path

name of the directory containing the SOFTWARE and SYSTEM (Windows) Registry file

-s system_file

filename of the SYSTEM (Windows) Registry file This option overrides the path provided by -r

-S software_file

filename of the SOFTWARE (Windows) Registry file This option overrides the path provided by -r

-t event_log_type

event log type, options: application, security, system if not specified the event log type is determined based on the filename.

-T

use event template definitions to parse the event record data

-v

verbose output to stderr

-V

print version

ENVIRONMENT¶

None

FILES¶

None

EXAMPLES¶

# evtxexport evtxexport -p c/ -r c/Windows/System32/config/ c/Windows/System32/winevt/Logs/Apllication.Evtx
evtxexport 20120910

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/libevtx/

AUTHOR¶

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 2011-2018, 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¶

evtxinfo(1)