DBILOGSTRIP(1p)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, meet dbilogstrip — it's a filter to normalize DBI trace logs for diff'ing 🦋

she's the manual page for the dbilogstrip command (that's the 1p in DBILOGSTRIP(1p), part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew, iykyk) ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

picture this: you read a DBI trace file called dbitrace.log and write out a stripped version to dbitrace_stripped.log 💅

dbilogstrip dbitrace.log > dbitrace_stripped.log

now the iconic move 👑 run yourscript.pl twice, each time with a different set of arguments, with DBI_TRACE enabled. filter the output and trace through dbilogstrip into a separate file for each run. then compare using diff. (this example assumes you're using a standard shell, no cap.)

DBI_TRACE=2 perl yourscript.pl ...args1... 2>&1 | dbilogstrip > dbitrace1.log
DBI_TRACE=2 perl yourscript.pl ...args2... 2>&1 | dbilogstrip > dbitrace2.log
diff -u dbitrace1.log dbitrace2.log

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

the whole gig is normalizing, and honestly? it ate 🔥

• she replaces any hex addresses, e.g, 0x128f72ce with 0xN 💀
• she replaces any references to process id or thread id, like pid#6254 with pidN 🌸

so a DBI trace line like this:

-> STORE for DBD::DBM::st (DBI::st=HASH(0x19162a0)~0x191f9c8 'f_params' ARRAY(0x1922018)) thr#1800400

will look like this:

-> STORE for DBD::DBM::st (DBI::st=HASH(0xN)~0xN 'f_params' ARRAY(0xN)) thrN

like… the addresses and the thr id just got the N treatment and suddenly two runs are actually comparable. main character energy fr fr 🫶

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lowkey the entire point: strip out the stuff that changes every single run so diff can show you what actually changed 💜

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie — this page came to you from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19, listed under DBILOGSTRIP(1p) 🌈 go diff something cute 🎀