OTFPRINT(1)

💖 NAME 💖

otfprint — turns an OTF trace into a human readable, long version 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay bestie, so here's the vibe: otfprint takes an OTF trace — or just parts of it, you get to choose — and converts it into a human readable, long version. that's it. that's the whole job. and it eats every single time 💅

here's the syntax, no cap:

otfprint [options] <input file name>

and here come the options, stay with me:

🎀 options 🎀

• -h, --help — shows you this help message, like a lil bestie holding your hand 🫶
• -V — shows the OTF version
• -f <n> — sets the max number of filehandles available (default: 50)
• -o <file> — output file. if you don't specify an output file, stdout gets used instead. main character of defaults fr fr
• --num <a> <b> — outputs only records no. [a,b]
• --time <a> <b> — outputs only records with a time stamp in [a,b]
• --nodef — omit definition records
• --noevent — omit event records
• --nostat — omit statistic records
• --nosnap — omit snapshot records
• --nomarker — omit marker records
• --nokeyvalue — omit key-value pairs
• --fullkeyvalue — show key-value pairs including the contents of byte-arrays (the full tea, no filtering ☕)
• --procs <a> — show only processes <a>. <a> is a space-seperated list of process-tokens
• --records <a> — show only records <a>. <a> is a space-seperated list of record-type-numbers, and those record-type-numbers can be found in OTF_Definitions.h (OTF_*_RECORD) — go look, iykyk 📖
• -s, --silent — do not display anything except the time otfprint needed to read the tracefile. silent but make it meaningful 🤫

lowkey obsessed with how many "omit" flags there are. pick your faves and go off, bestie 🌈

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and that's the whole page!! this was version otfprint 1.12.5, dated February 2026, and it's genuinely iconic of you to read all the way to the end 💜✨ bye pookie 🎀