RACONVERT(1)               OpenBSD Reference Manual               RACONVERT(1)



NAME
       raconvert - convert comma-separated ASCII argus(8) data, to binary
       argus(8) data.

SYNOPSIS
       raconvert -r input -w output

DESCRIPTION
       Raconvert reads comman separated ASCII argus data from a file or stdin,
       and converts the ASCII representation to binary format.  In order for
       raconver to process the delimited data correctly, the file should be
       created by ra.1 like programs, using the "-c <char>" option to specify
       a field separator.  Column delimiters can be any non-ambiguous
       character, and are automatically discovered from the files title
       string.

       Because raconvert.1 expects the first valid string in the file to be a
       ra.1 column title line, the ra.1 program must use the equivalent of the
       "-L 0" option.

       The file can present its column oriented data in any order, and
       raconvert will accomodate.  Duplicate columns on the same line are
       allowed, but the final value in the resulting argus record with be the
       last value encountered.

       raconvert.1 can read gzip and bzip2 compressed files, based on the file
       extension.


USES
       Raconvert is predominately used for reading ASCII represented archive
       data.  Argus data is routinely converted to ASCII for inspection and
       archiving, due to the good compressibility offered by gzip and others.
       Argus data is also converted from binary to ASCII and back to binary,
       as a routine process to enforce content policies.  The conversion, with
       ASCII inspection ensures that specific data of interest isn't leaked.


INVOCATION
       ra -L0 c , -r argusfile > argus.ascii.csv
       raconvert -r argus.ascii.csv -w argusfile


COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2000-2012 QoSient. All rights reserved.

SEE ALSO
       ra(1), rarc(5), argus(8),

FILES
AUTHORS
       Carter Bullard (carter@qosient.com).

BUGS
raconvert 3.0.6                 07 October 2003                   RACONVERT(1)
