bionic (1) raconvert.1.gz

Provided by: argus-client_3.0.8.2-3_amd64 bug

NAME
       raconvert - convert comma-separated ASCII argus(8) data, to binary argus(8) data.


SYNOPSIS
       raconvert -r input -w output


DESCRIPTION
       Raconvert  reads  comman  separated  ASCII  argus  data  from  a  file  or  stdin, and converts the ASCII
       representation to binary format.  In order for raconver to process the delimited data correctly, the file
       should  be  created  by  ra.1  like  programs, using the "-c <char>" option to specify a field separator.
       Column delimiters can be any non-ambiguous character, and are automatically  discovered  from  the  files
       title string.

       Because  raconvert.1  expects the first valid string in the file to be a ra.1 column title line, the ra.1
       program must use the equivalent of the "-L 0" option.

       The file can present its column oriented data in any order, and  raconvert  will  accomodate.   Duplicate
       columns  on the same line are allowed, but the final value in the resulting argus record with be the last
       value encountered.

       raconvert.1 can read gzip and bzip2 compressed files, based on the file extension.


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


INVOCATION
       ra -L0 c , -r argusfile > argus.ascii.csv
       raconvert -r argus.ascii.csv -w argusfile


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SEE ALSO
       ra(1), rarc(5), argus(8),


FILES
AUTHORS
       Carter Bullard (carter@qosient.com).


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