dumpiso(1)

💖 dumpiso — the manual page, but make it slay 💖

okay so bestie, this is dumpiso(1) from the Linux IEEE 1394 corner of the world, and honestly? she's an icon. she sits there, she listens, she writes down everything she hears. main character energy fr fr. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dumpiso — dump IEEE 1394 isochronous channel packets 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dumpiso [ options ] [ FILE ]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: dumpiso listens on a range of channels you picked, and dumps every single packet it receives into the file FILE. no FILE? no problem, she just dumps to standard output instead 💅

while she's dumping, the current number of received packets gets written to standard error and updated with every packet. it's giving live progress bar but make it stderr.

she uses a simple file format for the dumps, and that whole format is described over in isodump(5). and the cutest part? the dumped packets can be sent out again with sendiso(1). round trip, periodt. ✨

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -c, --channels=CHANNELS — sets the channels to listen on. CHANNELS can be either a single number (in which case that's the only channel she listens on, no notes) or a range of channels in the form X-Y. channel numbers can range from 0 to 63. you can give this option multiple times and new channels just get added to the list of already set channels. defaults to all channels 👑
• -p, --port=PORT — choose port PORT for receiving. a port is a 1394 card or chip and represents one connected bus, so this is only relevant when you have multiple of these. defaults to 0. lowkey only matters if you're fancy like that 🎀
• -h, --help — show help text and exit. the classic. the beloved. the "bestie I forgot the flags" button 🙈

✨ BUGS ✨

None known. 🫶 (yes really, she's that girl. no cap.)

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• sendiso(1) — the one who sends it back out 💌
• isodump(5) — the one who explains the file format 📓

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org> 💜

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it 🍓

mwah 💋 — this was libraw1394 2.1.2, dumpiso(1), signing off. see you in the group chat ✨🌈