README.md

conntrack-to-csv

Turn conntrack -L output into a CSV.

This is useful when you want to import your conntrack entries into a spreadsheet.

Requirements

You just need python3 and pip3.

$ python3 --version
Python 3.11.0

$ pip3 --version
pip 22.3 from ./conntrack-to-csv/venv/Lib/site-packages/pip (python 3.11)

Installation

Just clone this project and Install the requirements with pip3.

# Clone this project
$ git clone git@github.com:penafieljlm/conntrack-to-csv.git

# Navigate into the project
$ cd conntrack-to-csv

# Install the requirements
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

The following snippet describes how to use the script.

$ python3 conntrack-to-csv.py3 -h
usage: conntrack-to-csv.py3 [-h] input output

positional arguments:
  input       Input file path
  output      Output file path

options:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

Typical use-case is as follows:

# Dump conntrack entries into a file
$ conntrack -L > conntrack.txt

# Convert conntrack entries file into a CSV file
$ python3 conntrack-to-csv.py3 conntrack.txt conntrack.csv

You can read from stdin by specifying - as the input file path:

$ conntrack -L | python3 conntrack-to-csv.py3 - conntrack.csv

You can write to stdout by specifying - as the output file path:

$ conntrack -L | python3 conntrack-to-csv.py3 - -

Notes

To check syntax with mypy:

$ mypy conntrack-to-csv.py3

To automatically sort imports with isort:

$ isort conntrack-to-csv.py3