1RACONVERT(1)                General Commands Manual               RACONVERT(1)
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NAME

6       raconvert  -  convert  comma-separated  ASCII  argus(8) data, to binary
7       argus(8) data.
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SYNOPSIS

10       raconvert -r input -w output
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DESCRIPTION

13       Raconvert reads comman separated ASCII argus data from a file or stdin,
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15       raconver to process the delimited data correctly, the  file  should  be
16       created  by ra.1 like programs, using the "-c <char>" option to specify
17       a field separator.  Column delimiters can be any non-ambiguous  charac‐
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20       Because  raconvert.1 expects the first valid string in the file to be a
21       ra.1 column title line, the ra.1 program must use the equivalent of the
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24       The  file can present its column oriented data in any order, and racon‐
25       vert will accomodate.  Duplicate columns on the same line are  allowed,
26       but  the  final  value  in  the resulting argus record with be the last
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29       raconvert.1 can read gzip and bzip2 compressed files, based on the file
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USES

34       Raconvert  is  predominately used for reading ASCII represented archive
35       data.  Argus data is routinely converted to ASCII  for  inspection  and
36       archiving,  due to the good compressibility offered by gzip and others.
37       Argus data is also converted from binary to ASCII and back  to  binary,
38       as a routine process to enforce content policies.  The conversion, with
39       ASCII inspection ensures that specific data of interest isn't leaked.
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INVOCATION

43       ra -L0 c , -r argusfile > argus.ascii.csv
44       raconvert -r argus.ascii.csv -w argusfile
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48       Copyright (c) 2000-2016 QoSient. All rights reserved.
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SEE ALSO

51       ra(1), rarc(5), argus(8),
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AUTHORS
55       Carter Bullard (carter@qosient.com).
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BUGS
58raconvert 3.0.8                 07 October 2003                   RACONVERT(1)



        

    


            
        

        

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