ros2_bag_play_exclude

readme.md

Download the script, then

chmod +x ros2_bag_play_exclude.sh
./ros2_bag_play_exclude.sh <ros2_bag_file> /topic_to_exclude /more_topics_to_exclude /wild_card_match*

ros2_bag_play_exclude.sh

bag_path=$1
topics=`ros2 bag info ${bag_path} | grep "Topic information" | awk '{print $4}'`
topics+=" "
topics+=`ros2 bag info ${bag_path} | grep Topic | grep -v "Topic information" | awk '{print $2}'`

no_faults=true
for exclude in "${@:2}"; do
    if [[ "${topics}" != *${exclude}* ]]; then
        echo "Can't find topic name ${exclude}"
        no_faults=false
        continue
    fi

    found=false
    for topic in ${topics//" "/ } ; do 
        if [[ ${topic} == ${exclude} ]]; then
            topics=${topics//${topic}/}
            found=true
        fi
    done
    if ! ${found}; then
        echo "Topic name ${exclude} may be incomplete"
        no_faults=false
    fi
done

if ${no_faults}; then
    ros2 bag play ${bag_path} --topics ${topics}
fi