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.

SEE ALSO¶

accton (8), lastcomm (1)