acctmerg

PURPOSE

     Merges total accounting files.

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/lib/acct/acctmerg [-ahvip[fspec]] [-tu][file]


DESCRIPTION

     The acctmerg  command reads  records from  standard input
     and up to nine additional  files, all in the tacct binary
     format or  the tacct  ASCII format.   It merges  these by
     adding records with keys (normally user ID and name) that
     are identical, and expects the input records to be sorted
     by those key  fields.  It writes these  merged records to
     standard output.

     The  optional fieldspecs  allow  you to  select input  or
     output  fields.   A  field   specification  is  a  comma-
     separated list of fields  or field ranges.  Field numbers
     are in the order specified in the tacct file in AIX Oper-
     ating  System  Technical  Reference,  with  array  sizes,
     except for  the ta_name  characters, taken  into account.
     For example,  "-h2-3,7,15-13,2" displays the  login name,
     prime CPU  and connect  times, fee, queueing  system, and
     disk usage data, and the login name again, in that order,
     with column headings.  The  default specification is "all
     fields" ("1-18" or "1-"), which produces very wide output
     lines containing all the available accounting data.

     Queueing system, disk usage, or fee data can be converted
     into tacct  records using the -ifieldspec  argument.  For
     example, disk  accounting records, produced  by acctdisk,
     consist  of lines  containing  the user  ID, login  name,
     number of blocks, and number  of disk samples (always 1).
     A  file, dacct,  containing these  records can  be merged
     into an existing total accounting file, tacct, with:

       acctmerg  -i1-2,13,18  <dacct |. acctmerg  tacct  >output

FLAGS

     -a[fieldspec]  Produces  output  in  the  form  of  ASCII
                    records.
     -h[fieldspec]  Displays   column  headings.    This  flag
                    implies -a but is effective with -p or -v.
     -i[fieldspec]  Expects  input  files  composed  of  ASCII
                    records.
     -p[fieldspec]  Displays input without processing.
     -t             Produces a single record that contains the
                    totals of all input.
     -u             Summarizes by user ID  rather than by user
                    name.
     -v[fieldspec]  Produces output in ASCII format, with more
                    precise   notation    for   floating-point
                    numbers.

EXAMPLE

     The following  sequence is  useful for making  repairs to
     any file in tacct format:

     "
     acctmerg  -v  <file1  >file2"
          edit file2 as desired . . .
     "acctmerg  -a  <file2  >file1"

RELATED INFORMATION

     The following commands:   "acct,"  "acctcms," "acctcom,"
     "acctcon,"   "acctdisk,  acctdusg," "fwtmp,"   "acctprc,"
     and  "runacct."

     The acct system  call and the acct and utmp  files in AIX
     Operating System Technical Reference.

     "Running System Accounting" in Managing the AIX Operating
     System.