DBILOGSTRIP(1)

✨ DBILOGSTRIP ✨

okay bestie, so dbilogstrip is a filter to normalize DBI trace logs for diff'ing 💅 that's literally the whole vibe. it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the manual-verse, and it's here to make your trace logs stop being chaotic little gremlins.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so picture this: you got a DBI trace file called dbitrace.log, and you want a stripped version written out to dbitrace_stripped.log. iconic. here's the move:

dbilogstrip dbitrace.log > dbitrace_stripped.log

no cap, that's it.

now for the main character workflow: run yourscript.pl two times, each time with a different set of arguments, with DBI_TRACE enabled. filter the output and trace it through dbilogstrip into a separate file for each run. then compare using diff. (this example assumes you're using a standard shell, so like, a normal one, not whatever cursed thing your coworker has.)

DBI_TRACE=2 perl yourscript.pl ...args1... 2>&1 | dbilogstrip > dbitrace1.log
DBI_TRACE=2 perl yourscript.pl ...args2... 2>&1 | dbilogstrip > dbitrace2.log
diff -u dbitrace1.log dbitrace2.log

and then you get a diff that's actually readable?? we love to see it 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

here's what it does to your logs, bestie:

• replaces any hex addresses, e.g, 0x128f72ce with 0xN.
• replaces any references to process id or thread id, like pid#6254 with pidN.

so a DBI trace line like this:

-> STORE for DBD::DBM::st (DBI::st=HASH(0x19162a0)~0x191f9c8 'f_params' ARRAY(0x1922018)) thr#1800400

will look like this:

-> STORE for DBD::DBM::st (DBI::st=HASH(0xN)~0xN 'f_params' ARRAY(0xN)) thrN

like??? the way it just normalizes all those random numbers so your diff isn't screaming at you over addresses that change every single run 😭 those hex values and pid/thread ids are pure noise when you're trying to see what actually changed, and dbilogstrip is out here doing the lord's work, periodt. 🔥

pro tip from me to you: the whole point is that two runs that are functionally identical should produce identical logs after stripping. that's the diff'ing dream, and that's the vibe check this thing passes. 👑

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okay that's the whole page, bestie, you're officially unstoppable 💖

this gem comes to you from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and it was brought to life by perl v5.42.3 on 2026-10-19. slay, go diff something. 🎀✨