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.TH guaclog 1 "26 Jan 2018" "version @PACKAGE_VERSION@" "Apache Guacamole"
.
.SH NAME
guaclog \- Guacamole input log interpreter
.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B guaclog
[\fB-f\fR]
[\fIFILE\fR]...
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.B guaclog
is an interpreter which accepts Guacamole protocol dumps, such as those saved
when input logging is enabled for a Guacamole session recording, writing
human-readable text logs as output.
.B guaclog
is essentially an implementation of a Guacamole client which accepts
its input from files instead of a network connection, however unlike
.B guacenc
it only handles instructions related to user input.
.P
Each \fIFILE\fR specified will be translated into a new human-readable text
file named \fIFILE\fR.txt. Existing files will not be overwritten; the
interpreting process for any input file will be aborted if it would result in
overwriting an existing file.
.P
Guacamole acquires a write lock on recordings as they are being written. By
default,
.B guaclog
will check whether the each input file is locked and will refuse to read and
interpret an input file if it appears to be an in-progress recording. This
behavior can be overridden by specifying the \fB-f\fR option. Interpreting an
in-progress recording will still work; the resulting human-readable text file
will simply cover the user's session only up to the current point in time.
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.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB-f\fR
Overrides the default behavior of
.B guaclog
such that input files will be interpreted even if they appear to be recordings
of in-progress Guacamole sessions.
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.SH OUTPUT FORMAT
The output format of
.B guaclog
is meant to match what the user would have typed within a typical text editor
as closely as possible, while also representing non-printable characters and
keyboard shortcuts in a human-readable way.
.P
All output is on one line, with new lines started only as a result of the user
pressing enter/return. Keys which produce printable characters are translated
into their corresponding Unicode codepoints and encoded as UTF-8, while
non-printable characters are enclosed within angle brackets and represented
with their human-readable names. Keyboard shortcuts which are made up of more
than one key are enclosed within angle brackets, with each key within the
shortcut separated by plus signs.
.P
Spaces and newlines are included as their Unicode character, except when
represented within a keyboard shortcut, in which case their human-readable
names are used instead. As the output of pressing tab can be easily mistaken
for spaces, and as pressing tab frequently has special meaning within
applications, tab is always represented by its human-readable name.
.P
Modifiers are output as part of keyboard shortcuts only. Simple pressing and
releasing of a modifier will be ignored, as are presses of shift or AltGr while
typing.
.P
For example, if the user typed "Hello WORLD!", selected everything by pressing
Ctrl+a, copied the selected text by pressing Ctrl+c, switched to another
application by pressing Alt+Shift+Tab, and then pasted the previously-copied
text by pressing Ctrl+v, the resulting log from
.B
guaclog
would look like:
.PP
.RS 0
Hello WORLD!<Ctrl+a><Ctrl+c><Alt+Shift+Tab><Ctrl+v>
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.SH SEE ALSO
.BR guacenc (1)