SDFFILTER(1)

💖 NAME 💖

Welcome to the SDFFILTER(1) manual page, from the User Commands corner: meet sdffilter, version 26.11.1, the tool that spills the tea on Sdf Layers in a whole bunch of formats. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

sdffilter [OPTIONS] inputFiles...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so sdffilter provides information in a variety of formats (including usda-like) about Sdf Layers, or about specified (filtered) parts of a layer. It’s giving investigative-journalist energy for your layer files. 🔥

📍 Positionals

• inputFiles ... — the input files to process. Drop them in and let the filter do its thing. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — Print this help message and exit. Short, sweet, iconic.
• -p, --path regex — Report only paths matching this regex. Only the paths you care about, no cap.
• -f, --field regex — Report only fields matching this regex. Same vibe, but for fields.
• -t, --time n or ff..lf — Report only these times (n) or time ranges (ff..lf) for timeSamples fields. Keep it precise, bestie. ⏰
• --timeTolerance tol — Report times that are close to those requested within this relative tolerance. Default: 0.000125.
• --arraySizeLimit INT — Truncate arrays with more than this many elements. If -1, do not truncate arrays. Default: 0 for 'outline' output, 8 for 'pseudoLayer' output, and -1 for 'layer' output.
• --timeSamplesSizeLimit INT — Truncate timeSamples with more than this many values. If -1, do not truncate timeSamples. Default: 0 for 'outline' output, 8 for 'pseudoLayer' output, and -1 for 'layer' output. Truncation is performed after initial filtering by --time arguments. Don’t forget that order, iykyk.
• -o, --out TEXT — Direct output to this file. Use the outputFormat for finer control over the underlying format for output formats that are not uniquely determined by file extension. File extension said what? Not always enough, periodt.
• --outputType validity|summary|outline|pseudoLayer|layer — Specify output format; 'summary' reports overall statistics, 'outline' is a flat text report of paths and fields, 'pseudoLayer' is similar to the usda file format but with truncated array values and timeSamples for human readability, and 'layer' is true layer output, with the format controlled by the 'out' and 'outputFormat' arguments. Default: outline.
• --outputFormat TEXT — Supply this as the 'format' entry of SdfFileFormatArguments for 'layer' output to a file. Requires both 'layer' output and a specified output file. No file, no format, bestie. 🙈
• --sortBy path|field — Group 'outline' output by either path or field. Ignored for other output types. Default: path.
• --noValues — Do not report field values. Sometimes you want the tea, not the whole spreadsheet. 💀

🫶 That’s the sdffilter 26.11.1 manual, October 2026 edition — go slay those layers, bestie. 💅✨