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=head1 NAME

B<rwsilk2ipfix> - Convert SiLK Flow records to IPFIX records

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  rwsilk2ipfix [--ipfix-output=FILE] [--print-statistics] [FILES...]

=head1 DESCRIPTION

B<rwsilk2ipfix> reads SiLK Flow records from the input file names
specified on the command line or from the standard input when no file
names are specified, converts the records to an IPFIX (Internet
Protocol Flow Information eXport) format, and writes the IPFIX records
to the path specified by B<--ipfix-output> or to the standard output
when stdout is not the terminal and B<--ipfix-output> is not provided.

If the input file names end in C<.gz>, they will be uncompressed as
they are read.  When C<stdin> is provided as an input file name,
B<rwsilk2ipfix> will read records from the standard input.

=head1 OPTIONS

Option names may be abbreviated if the abbreviation is unique or is an
exact match for an option.  A parameter to an option may be specified
as B<--arg>=I<param> or B<--arg> I<param>, though the first form is
required for options that take optional parameters.

=over 4

=item B<--ipfix-output>=I<FILE>

Write the IPFIX records to I<FILE>, which must not exist.  If the
switch is not provided or if I<FILE> has the value C<stdout>, the
IPFIX flows are written to the standard output.

=item B<--print-statistics>

Print, to the standard error, the number of records that were written
to the IPFIX output file.

=back

=head1 EXAMPLES

To convert the SiLK file F<silk.rwf> into IPFIX format:

  rwsilk2ipfix --ipfix-output=ipfix.dat silk.rwf

To view the contents of F<ipfix.dat> using the B<yafscii> tool (see
L<http://tools.netsa.cert.org/yaf/>):

  yafscii --in=ipfix.dat --out=-

To convert the file back into SiLK Flow format:

  rwipfix2silk --silk-output=silk2.rwf ipfix.dat

=head1 SEE ALSO

B<rwipfix2silk(1)>, B<yafscii(1)>

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$SiLK: rwsilk2ipfix.pod 7334 2007-05-30 15:42:13Z mthomas $

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