hpux man page for acctmerg

Query: acctmerg

OS: hpux

Section: 1m

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acctmerg(1M)															      acctmerg(1M)

NAME
acctmerg - merge or add total accounting files
SYNOPSIS
[options] [file] ...
DESCRIPTION
reads its standard input and up to nine additional files, all in the format (see acct(4)) or an ASCII version thereof. It merges these inputs by adding records whose keys (normally user ID and name) are identical, and expects the inputs to be sorted on those keys. Options recognizes the following options: Produce output in ASCII version of Input files are in ASCII version of Print input with no processing. Produce a single record that totals all input. Summarize by user ID, rather than user ID and name. Produce output in verbose ASCII format, with more precise notation for floating point numbers.
EXAMPLES
The following sequence is useful for making ``repairs'' to any file kept in this format: edit file2 as desired ...
SEE ALSO
acct(1M), acctcms(1M), acctcom(1M), acctcon(1M), acctprc(1M), acctsh(1M), fwtmp(1M), runacct(1M), acct(2), acct(4), utmp(4).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
acctmerg(1M)
Related Man Pages
acctmerg(1m) - opensolaris
acctmerg(1m) - sunos
acctmerg(1m) - minix
acctmerg(1m) - xfree86
acctmerg(1m) - posix
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