dissect.archive

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A Dissect module implementing parsers for various archive and backup formats. Currently has support for: - WIM (Windows Imaging Format)

Installation

dissect.archive is available on PyPI.

$ pip install dissect.archive

This module is also automatically installed if you install the dissect package.

Usage

This package is a library with no CLI tools, so you can only interact with it from Python. For example, to print a directory listing of the root directory and read a file from a WIM archive:

from dissect.archive.wim import WIM

fh = open("path/to/file.wim", "rb")

wim = WIM(fh)
for image in wim.images():
    print(image.get("/").listdir())

    file_fh = image.get("/file.txt").open()  # This is just another file-like object
    print(file_fh.read())

Reference

For more details, please refer to the API documentation of dissect.archive.