au3 util — Command Reference

CLI command group: au3 util

Miscellaneous utility commands: diffing objects, pretty-printing piped output, duration formatting, string compression, id inspection, and ERM-to-ERD conversion.

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au3 util diff-objs

Diff two parseable objects

Option	Type	Required	Default	Notes
--old	string	✅		File path to old object (JSON/YAML)
--new	string	✅		File path to new object (JSON/YAML)
--fmt	enum		human	Output format Choices: "human", "json", "yaml"
--debug	boolean		false	Enable more verbose output on error

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au3 util pipe-pretty

Format logs as human-friendly

Option	Type	Required	Default	Notes
--fmt	enum		human	Output format Choices: "human", "json", "yaml"
--debug	boolean		false	Enable more verbose output on error

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au3 util human-duration

Converts a duration from milliseconds to human-friendly format

Option	Type	Required	Default	Notes
--duration		✅		Duration in milliseconds
--space	boolean		true	Whether to include spaces between the duration parts
--pad	boolean		false	Whether to pad with leading space to make the parts more uniform
--threshold	boolean		false	Whether to lower precision at 10sec & 10min thresholds
--fmt	enum		human	Output format Choices: "human", "json", "yaml"
--debug	boolean		false	Enable more verbose output on error

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au3 util compress-string

Compresses a string

Option	Type	Required	Default	Notes
--string	string	✅		String to compress or path to file containing string
--fmt	enum		human	Output format Choices: "human", "json", "yaml"
--debug	boolean		false	Enable more verbose output on error

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au3 util decompress-string

Decompresses a string

Option	Type	Required	Default	Notes
--string	string	✅		String to decompress or path to file containing string
--fmt	enum		human	Output format Choices: "human", "json", "yaml"
--debug	boolean		false	Enable more verbose output on error

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au3 util describe-id

Describes an id based on statically extractable information

Option	Type	Required	Default	Notes
--id	string	✅		Id to describe
--fmt	enum		human	Output format Choices: "human", "json", "yaml"
--debug	boolean		false	Enable more verbose output on error

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au3 util erm-to-erd

Generate ERD from ERM

Option	Type	Required	Default	Notes
--format	enum	✅	graphviz	Choices: "graphviz", "mermaid"
--field-mode	enum	✅	none	Choices: "all", "keys", "none"
--erm	string	✅		ERM in JSON/YAML format or path to file containing ERM
--field-filter	string			filter in JSON/YAML format or path to file containing filter
--fmt	enum		human	Output format Choices: "human", "json", "yaml"
--debug	boolean		false	Enable more verbose output on error

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