Loger is a small shell script for Unix sh and compatible shells. It converts CENTERICQ history files into human-readable logs.
It is useful - at least for me - when I want to reread an old conversation. The script writes the result to standard output, so you can pipe it to less for viewing and searching, or redirect it with > to save the output to a file.
Loger processes the entire history file. At the moment, there is no option to filter the output by date or, for example, show only the last five days.
Note: the script is slow.
The script
if [ -e $1 ]; then cat $1|while read line; do case "$line" in `echo "$line"|grep ^[[:cntrl:]]`) echo "";; IN) echo -n "Partner ";; OUT) echo -n "Me ";; AUTH | NOTE | MSG | SMS) echo -n "[" read line read line echo -n `date -d "1970-01-01 $line sec" +"%Y-%m-%d %T"` echo -n "]: ";; *) echo "$line";; esac done fi
Ransom Smith:
On my FreeBSD system,
echo -n `date -d "1970-01-01 $line sec" +"%Y-%m-%d %T"`
must be replaced with
echo -n `date -r $line +"%Y-%m-%d %T"`
for the script to work correctly.
Usage
Nothing special:
loger <path/filename>
Examples
loger history | less loger ~/.centericq/yMyBoss/history > ~/ToDo.txt