DUMP_ACCT(8)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to dump-acct(8) — yes, the DUMP_ACCT(8) manual page — for the command dump-acct, which prints an acct/pacct file in human-readable format. slay. 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dump-acct [-r|--reverse] [-R|--raw] [-n|--num recs] [--byte-swap]
[--format] [--ahz freq] [-h|--help] [files]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The dump-acct command transforms the output file from the accton format into the human-readable format: one record per line. Each record has several fields separated by the character | — and what a concrete field means depends on the version of the kernel package that created the accton file. iykyk. 🦋

💅 OPTIONS 💅

The following options are supported:

• -r, --reverse — print the output in reverse order. 🔁
• -R, --raw — the records will be printed with no parsing at all. raw girl summer, no cap.
• -n, --num NUMRECS — display only the first NUMRECS number of records. 🎀
• --byteswap — swap the bytes (relative to your system's native byte order) in --raw output. ⚠️
• --format — set output format with the --raw option. ✨
• --ahz FREQ — set the AHZ (platform dependent frequency in Hertz) to FREQ. 🔥
• -h, --help — print a help message and the default location of the process accounting file, then exit. 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

accton (8), lastcomm (1)

💖 source/version + date tea, bestie: Linux accounting system, 2009 December 2. that’s the whole page — go dump some accounting records and slay. 💅✨