acctmerg(ADM)                   19 June 1992                   acctmerg(ADM)


 Name

    acctmerg - merge or add total accounting files

 Syntax

    /usr/lib/acct/acctmerg [ options ] [ file ] ...

 Description

    acctmerg reads its standard input and up to nine additional files, all in
    the tacct format (see acct(FP)) 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
    are:

    -a   Produce output in ASCII version of tacct.

    -i   Input files are in ASCII version of tacct.

    -p   Print input with no processing.

    -t   Produce a single record that totals all input.

    -u   Summarize by user ID rather than user ID and name.

    -v   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:

       acctmerg -v <file1 >file2
               ... edit file2 as desired ...
       acctmerg -i <file2 file1>

 See also

    acct(ADM), acctcms(ADM), acctcom(ADM), acctcon(ADM), acctprc(ADM),
    acctsh(ADM), fwtmp(ADM), runacct(ADM), acct(S), acct(FP), utmp(F)

 Standards conformance

    acctmerg is conformant with:

    AT&T SVID Issue 2.