DUMP_ACCT

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 2009 December 2
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NAME

dump-acct - print an acct/pacct file in human-readable format

SYNOPSYS

dump-acct [-hrR] [-n <recs>] <files>
[--num <recs>] [--raw] [--reverse] [--help]

DESCRIPTION

The dump-acct command transforms the output file from the accton format to the human-readable format: one record per line. Each record consists of severald fields which are separated by character "|" (the meaning of concreate field depends on the version of kernel package - with which the accton file was created).

OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

-h, --help: Print a help message and the default location of the process accounting file and exit.
-r, --reverse: Print the output in reverse order.
-R, --raw: The records will be printed without any parsing.
-n, --num NUMRECS: Display only the first NUMRECS number of records.