pspp-dump-sav(1)

💅 pspp-dump-sav — dissect SPSS system file

okay bestie, welcome to the PSPP Manual corner of the internet 🫶 this one's about pspp-dump-sav(1), aka the little tool that opens up an SPSS system file and spills ALL its tea.

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✨ NAME ✨

pspp-dump-sav — dissect SPSS system file 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pspp-dump-sav [-d | --data[=maxcases]] file...
pspp-dump-sav --help | -h
pspp-dump-sav --version | -v

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So pspp-dump-sav reads every SPSS system file you hand it (those are the file... args, bestie) and prints out what's inside. Literally dissects it. 🔬

heads up: it is not installed by default, so it might just be missing from your PSPP installation. not ghosting you on purpose, it's just built different 🙈

The output format? Extremely useful for debugging system file readers and writers, and for figuring out how to interpret records that are unknown or poorly understood. So it's giving detective energy 🔍

And for regular end users? The output can be a whole vibe for sending the PSPP developers info about system files that PSPP doesn't accurately read. Basically: "here's my file, please fix, ilysm" 💌

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -d[maxcases], --data[=maxcases] — by default, pspp-dump-sav does not print any of the data in a system file, only the file headers. Specify this option to print the data too. And if maxcases is specified, it limits the number of cases printed. so like, a lil snack instead of the whole meal 🍓
• -h, --help — prints a usage message on stdout and exits. your classic "help me bestie" move ✨
• -v, --version — prints version information on stdout and exits. 💁‍♀️

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💀 BUGS 💀

Some errors that prevent files from being interpreted successfully cause pspp-dump-sav to exit without reading any additional files given on the command line. yeah. it just. stops. no cap, it will leave the rest of your files on read 😭

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Ben Pfaff and John Darrington. icons, honestly. 💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

pspp(1), psppire(1). go read those too, iykyk 🧚

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and that's the whole page, babe 💅 this one came from the PSPP fam, dated January 2012 — oldie but a goodie, fr fr. mwah, go dump some sav files 🫶✨