If Fatback is run without the -a or --auto option, it enters what is called interactive mode. In interactive mode, Fatback gives you a prompt to which you can enter commands and direct Fatback to perform more specific tasks than the automatic undelete mode.
If the input is a partitioned drive, Fatback will first display a menu of possible partitions and prompt you for which you would like to work with. Fatback will then enter the partition and you may begin exploring and recovering files!
The command interpreter is loosely modeled after the classic UNIX shell environment. The interpreter provides a prompt (‘fatback>’ by default), and mimics several UNIX shell commands such as ‘ls’, ‘cd’, ‘pwd’ , ‘cp’, and many others.
Fatback version 1.3 has the following commands:
The copy command is synonymous with cp, and the dir command is synonymous with ls. The copy and dir aliases where created to give users who primarily use DOS a familiar interface. However, the Fatback interpreter was designed to mimic a UNIX shell, so the cp and ls forms are preferred and used by all the documentation.
It is important to note that Fatback is very case sensitive. All directory entries are in upper case, and some may have a long file name (see Long File Names) associated with it that can be mixed case. When specifying directory entries you must use either the exact uppercase name, or the long file name. To specify a long file name that contains white space, put the whole name in double quotes. For example, the Program Files directory in a windows system can be specified by either ‘PROGRA~1’ or ‘"Program Files"’.