NAME

recs-substream

recs-substream --help-all

 Help from: --help-basic:
 Usage: recs-substream <args> [<files>]
   Filters to a range of records delimited from when the begin snippet becomes
   true to when the end snippet becomes true, ie. [begin, end]. Compare to Perl's
   inclusive, bistable ".." range operator.
 
   See --help-snippet for details on snippets.
 
 Arguments:
    --begin|b SNIP               Begins outputting records when this snippet
                                 becomes true. If omitted, output starts from
                                 beginning of the stream.
    --end|e SNIP                 Stops outputting records after this snippet
                                 becomes true. If omitted, outputs to the end of
                                 the stream.
    --filename-key|fk <keyspec>  Add a key with the source filename (if no
                                 filename is applicable will put NONE)
 
   Help Options:
       --help-all      Output all help for this script
       --help          This help screen
       --help-snippet  Help on code snippets
 
 Examples:
   Filter to a specific minute:
       recs-substream -b '{{EndTime}} =~ /Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:42/' -e 'not {{EndTime}} =~ /Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:42/'
   Truncate past a specific date:
       recs-substream -e '{{EndTime}} =~ /Thu, 07 Nov/'
 
 Help from: --help-snippet:
    CODE SNIPPETS:
     Recs code snippets are perl code, with one exception. There a couple of
     variables predefined for you, and one piece of special syntax to assist in
     modifying hashes.
 
 Special Variables:
     $r - the current record object. This may be used exactly like a hash, or you
     can use some of the special record functions, see App::RecordStream::Record
     for more information
 
     $line - This is the number of records run through the code snippet, starting
     at 1. For most scripts this corresponds to the line number of the input to
     the script.
 
     $filename - The filename of the originating record. Note: This is only
     useful if you're passing filenames directly to the recs script, piping
     from other recs scripts or from cat, for instance, will not have a
     useful filename.
 
 Special Syntax
     Use {{search_string}} to look for a string in the keys of a record, use /
     to nest keys. You can nest into arrays by using an index. If you are
     vivifying arrays (if the array doesn't exist, prefix your key with # so
     that an array rather than a hash will be created to put a / in your key,
     escape it twice, i.e. \/
 
     This is exactly the same as a key spec that is always prefaced with a @, see
     'man recs' for more info on key specs
 
     For example: A record that looks like:
     { "foo" : { "bar 1" : 1 }, "zoo" : 2}
     Could be accessed like this:
 
     # value of zoo  # value of $r->{foo}->{bar 1}: (comma separate nested keys)
     {{zoo}}         {{foo/ar 1}}
 
     # Even assign to values (set the foo key to the value 1)
     {{foo}} = 1
 
     # And auto, vivify
     {{new_key/array_key/#0}} = 3 # creates an array within a hash within a hash
 
     # Index into an array
     {{array_key/#3}} # The value of index 3 of the array ref under the
     'array_key' hash key.
 
     This matching is a fuzzy keyspec matching, see --help-keyspecs for
     more details.
 

See Also

RecordStream(3) - Overview of the scripts and the system

recs-examples(3) - A set of simple recs examples

recs-story(3) - A humorous introduction to RecordStream

SCRIPT --help - every script has a --help option, like the output above