[arm-allstar] Archive Directory Filename Customization

[John Huggins]

Thanks Doug. I do so love "Bash"ing and that's a good method you propose.

Will set it up and give it a go tonight.

John

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 11:59 AM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> John,
>
>  We will take that into consideration but Linux has great tools to do this
> in so many ways externally. Here is an example:
>
> I created dummy files in /tmp/test as such:
>
> ls /tmp/test
>
> 20180130055931.wav  20180130055951.wav  20180130060111.wav
> 20180130060131.wav
> 20180130055941.wav  20180130060101.wav  20180130060121.wav
>
> Then ran the below script and had the resultant files -
>
>  ls /tmp/test2
>
> 01-30-2018-05-59-31.wav  01-30-2018-05-59-51.wav  01-30-2018-06-01-11.wav
> 01-30-2018-06-01-31.wav
> 01-30-2018-05-59-41.wav  01-30-2018-06-01-01.wav  01-30-2018-06-01-21.wav
>
> Of course the format could be changed to whatever you want by changing the
> script.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> FILES=/tmp/test
> DestFiles=/tmp/test2
>
> for f in $FILES/*
> do
>   #echo "Processing $f file..."
>   # take action on each file. $f store current file name
>   f=${f##*/}
>   ext="${f##*.}"
>   dt="${f%.*}"
>
>   yr=${dt:0:4}
>   mn=${dt:4:2}
>   dy=${dt:6:2}
>
>   hr=${dt:8:2}
>   mi=${dt:10:2}
>   se=${dt:12:2}
>
>   echo "Filename $dt.$ext changed to $mn-$dy-$yr-$hr-$mi-$se.$ext"
>   cp $FILES/$dt.$ext $DestFiles/$mn-$dy-$yr-$hr-$mi-$se.$ext
>
> done
>
>
>
> *73 Doug*
>
> *WA3DSP*
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 7:24 AM, "John Huggins via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the response Doug. Comments below.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:43 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar"
>> <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>> > John,
>> >
>> >   Let me correct what I said as it was probably confusing the way I
>> wrote
>> > it...  The node number is appended to the path.
>>
>> Yeah I did know that, but didn't make it clear. Sorry about that.
>>
>> > You cannot change the
>> > filename.
>>
>> How sad. Well please consider this a feature request. All I really
>> hope for is a dash between the YYYYMMDD and the Time. This...
>>
>>   20180130055931.WAV
>>
>> ...to this...
>>
>>   20180130-055931.WAV
>>
>> Why? When parsing through all these files during an investigation it
>> really helps to quickly be able to note the time at a glance rather
>> than having to parse it in one's head continuously.
>>
>> That said, the scorecard for this feature is pretty good. Two days
>> after turning it on and evidence of unwelcome behavior presented to an
>> individual who voluntarily removed himself from the scene, we now have
>> one less whacker on our system... and the women are trickling back to
>> the repeater already!
>>
>> Allstar/HamVOIP... making a difference... thanks!
>>
>> John
>>
>> >
>> > 73 Doug
>> > WA3DSP
>> > http://www.crompton.com/hamradio
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:39 PM, Doug Crompton <wa3dsp at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> John,
>> >>
>> >>  The filename is always the node number. So in your example if you had
>> >> that define in node [40000] the file name would be
>> >>
>> >> /media/USB/40000
>> >>
>> >> If you had a second node and it was [40001] the filename would be
>> >>
>> >> /media/USB/40001
>> >>
>> >> In other words you can define the path but not the file name.
>> >>
>> >> 73 Doug
>> >> WA3DSP
>> >> http://www.crompton.com/hamradio
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:28 PM, "John Huggins via arm-allstar"
>> >> <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> All,
>> >>>
>> >>> When we make use of the archive feature by setting rpt.conf to this...
>> >>>
>> >>>   archivedir = /media/USB
>> >>>
>> >>> ...where is the setting to customize the filename format?
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks.
>> >>>
>> >>> 73
>> >>> John, kx4o
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