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Convert audit logs to other formats

SciPipe 0.8.0 introduced experimental support for converting audit logs (those .audit.json files produced to accompany all output files from SciPipe) into other formats, such as HTML, TeX (for further conversion to PDF) or even executable Bash-scripts. Here's how to do it.

Convert audit log to HTML

Given that you have an audit log file with the name myfile.audit.json, then execute:

scipipe audit2html myfile.audit.json

This will produce an HTML file named myfile.audit.html, which you can view in a web browser.

Convert audit log to TeX

Given that you have an audit log file with the name myfile.audit.json, then execute:

scipipe audit2tex myfile.audit.json

This will produce an HTML file named myfile.audit.tex, which you can either edit manually, or convert directly to PDF using the pdflatex command like so:

pdflatex myfile.audit.tex

Converting to PDF requires that you have a TeX installation on your system. On Ubuntu, you can install the base package or TeX live with sudo apt-get install texlive-base.

Convert audit log to Bash

Given that you have an audit log file with the name myfile.audit.json, then execute:

scipipe audit2bash myfile.audit.json

This will produce a Bash-file named myfile.audit.sh, which you can execute like so:

sh myfile.audit.sh

... in order to reproduce the file again from scratch, if it is removed, given that you have all the dependent files and tools installed on your system.