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6 dump-acct - print an acct/pacct file in human-readable format
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10 dump-acct [-r|--reverse] [-R|--raw] [-n|--num recs] [--byte-swap]
11 [--format] [--ahz freq] [-h|--help] [files]
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15 The dump-acct command transforms the output file from the accton format
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45 Print a help message and the default location of the process
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