OCTO_REPORTER(1)

👑 OCTO_REPORTER 💅

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for octo_reporter(1), from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual. Yes, section 1. Yes, it's a Perl thing. Yes, it's iconic. Let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

octo_reporter — the Octopussy Reporter program. that's it, that's the name, and honestly? it ate 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the main character invocation, look at her:

octo_reporter --report <report> --device <device> --service <service>
  --taxonomy <taxonomy> --begin YYYYMMDDHHMM --end YYYYMMDDHHMM
  [ --pid_param <string> ] --output <output_file>

and then the lil add-on crews, one per delivery vibe:

Mail options:

--mail_subject <subject> --mail_recipients <recipients>

FTP options:

--ftp_host <host> --ftp_dir <dir>
--ftp_user <user> --ftp_password <password>

SCP options: (SSH Public Key required — no key, no entry, bestie 🔑)

--scp_host <host> --scp_dir <dir> --scp_user <user>

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically octo_reporter is the program the Octopussy Project uses to generate Reports. that's the whole assignment. she reports. she generates. she serves. 💅

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🎀 FUNCTIONS 🎀

Help()

Prints Help. literally just prints Help. we love a queen who knows her one job 😌

Progress($msg, $num)

Sets progress status. so you can see how far along things are. very demure, very mindful of your need for feedback ✨

SQL($ref_pos, @args)

Generates SQL line. one line of SQL, freshly generated, no cap 🧚

Get_Messages_To_Parse($services, $taxo, $table, $query, $fields_list)

Returns list of Messages to parse. she fetches the messages, she hands them over, that's the whole vibe 🍓

Get_TimePeriod_Files($devices, $services, $begin, $end)

Returns list of Files for Devices $devices, Services $services and Period $begin-$end. time period? respected. files? returned. obsessed 💜

Insert_Data($devices, $services, $taxo, $begin, $end, $table, $query, $field_list)

Inserts data. that's it. she puts the data in. lowkey the most important function here and she doesn't even brag 🌈

End()

Ends Reporter. closing time, lights off, main character exits stage left 👑

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Sebastien Thebert <octo.devel@gmail.com> — thank you for your service, fr fr 🫡

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go read these too, they're all in the same friend group:

• octo_dispatcher
• octo_extractor
• octo_parser
• octo_uparser
• octo_scheduler

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this version is living on perl v5.22.2 and it was dated 2016-05-04 — a whole era, and she's still slaying. mwah 💋