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Date in log filenames

By Sébastien Helleu on Monday, February 1 2010, 20:00 - plugins - Permalink

It is now possible to use date formaters in log filenames (in mask options).

For example to have log by year and month in separate directories, you can do :

/set logger.file.mask "%Y/%m/$plugin.$name.weechatlog"

You'll have a tree like that:

~/.weechat/
    |- logs/
        |- 2009/
            |- 12/
                |  irc.server.freenode.weechatlog
                |  irc.freenode.#weechat.weechatlog
        |- 2010/
            |- 01/
                |  irc.server.freenode.weechatlog
                |  irc.freenode.#weechat.weechatlog

Comments

1. On Tuesday, February 2 2010, 19:21 by drubin

I thought I would add this comment since it confused me a little at first and I was one of the requesters of this feature.

Because I don't like filenames like the static $plugin.$name. FlashCode was good enough to add logger.mask.$plugin configuration option that allows each plugin to override the default options.

So I have logger.mask.irc = "$server/$channel/%Y.%m.log" << Woohoo how cool is it that you can use irc properties in the logger.mask.irc config option!

2. On Friday, February 12 2010, 03:45 by dan

set logger '$server/$channel/%Y-%m.log'

is creating a file named '%y-%m.log' ie. date format strings dont seem to be parsing correctly using the ubuntu deb downloads.

3. On Friday, February 12 2010, 07:46 by FlashCode

This feature is available only in version 0.3.2-dev (future 0.3.2), and not in 0.3.1 or older versions.