FLOW-RPTFMT(1)

💖 FLOW-RPTFMT(1) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because flow-rptfmt is about to become your new obsession ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

flow-rptfmt — the little glow-up fairy that takes the output of flow-report and formats it into ASCII or HTML 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

flow-rptfmt [ -hHnp ]  [ -a alarm_time ]  [ -f format ]  [ -F fields ]
[ -m max_lines ]  [ -s sort_field ]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea ☕ — the flow-rptfmt utility takes the CSV output of flow-report and processes it into formatted ASCII or HTML. literally a makeover montage but for data 💖

during this post-processing era it supports sorting, maximum display lines, field filtering, header display, and name substitution. and that's not all — you can also set an alarm for use in CGI scripts to limit the CPU time of formatting. she does it all, no cap 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -a alarm_time — exit after alarm_time seconds. like a little timer that says "bestie, we're done here" ⏰
• -f ascii|html — set the output format. defaults to ASCII. choose your aesthetic 🎨
• -F display_fields — limit columns to display_fields. only show the fields you want, we're being selective 💅
• -h — Help. she's here for you 🫶
• -H — Display header information. give the people context 👑
• -m max_lines — limit rows to max_lines. keep it short and iconic, we love a snack not a feast 🍓
• -n — Enable symbol table lookups. get those names translated 🔍
• -p — Display in percent total form. math but make it cute 🌈
• -s sort_field — Sort on sort_field. prepend with + for ascending, - for descending sort. up or down, your call, main character energy either way ⭐

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🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

format the output of daily-ip-protocol.txt in ASCII. display the ip-protocol and octets fields in percent total format with symbols. limit output to top 5 sorted by octets. periodt 💅

cat daily-ip-protocol.txt | flow-rptfmt -fascii -Fip-protocol,octets -p
-n -m5

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💀 BUGS 💀

• sorting could be faster 😭
• percent totals could be faster 😭
• may not work with flow-report prior to 0.68 — so like, check your version bestie, don't get caught out 🙈

ngl these are real, not me being dramatic. 0.68 is the cutoff, fr fr.

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Mark Fullmer <maf@splintered.net> — the icon, the legend, the one who made this happen 👑

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

flow-tools(1)

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and that's the whole vibe check, bestie 🌸 this page was living its best life dated 26 Август 2010, so go forth, format some flows, and slay ✨💖🦋