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RACONVERT(1) General Commands Manual RACONVERT(1) NAME raconvert - convert comma-separated ASCII argus(8) data, to binary argus(8) data. SYNOPSIS raconvert -r input -w output DESCRIPTION Raconvert reads ASCII based files, either CSV, or Json argus data from a file or stdin, and converts the ASCII representation to binary argus for- mat. In order for raconvert to process the data correctly, the file should be created by ra.1 like programs, using the "-c <char>" option or the "-M json" mode, to specify the ASCII format. In the case of CSV files, column delimiters can be any non-ambiguous character, and are automatically dis- covered from the files title string. In the case of CSV files, 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 encoun- tered. raconvert.1 can read gzip and bzip2 compressed files, based on the file ex- tension. 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 ra -M json -r argusfile > argus.json raconvert -r argus.json -w argusfile COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2000-2024 QoSient. All rights reserved. SEE ALSO ra(1), rarc(5), argus(8), FILES AUTHORS Carter Bullard (carter@qosient.com). BUGS raconvert 5.0.3 07 October 2023 RACONVERT(1)
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