Feature request: add a CLI option to parse & print the contents of .blog file #42
Description
Hello there!
ttop is an amazing tool that covers many of my monitoring use cases, but I recently encountered a new challenge that isn't easily solved.
I have several processes that I need to monitor over extended periods to analyze their resource consumption—particularly peak usage. While I could inspect each process individually via the TUI, this approach would be prohibitively time-consuming.
I considered leveraging the data ttop already collects in its .blog files, which contain all the necessary information. However, since these files are binary, I'd need to implement a parser based on the code here - https://github.com/inv2004/ttop/blob/main/src/ttop/blog.nim
Then it occurred to me: this functionality might be a natural fit for ttop itself!
I’m not a Nim expert (not even an amateur, hehe), but with LLM assistance I could likely contribute something. My idea is a new command-line option for ttop that accepts a .blog file, parses its contents, and prints human-readable output. This would allow users to pipe the results into tools like sed, awk, or grep for custom processing.
What are your thoughts? Would you accept a pull request for this feature? Or would you prefer to implement it yourself? :)