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@cincodenada /logsb
Created Nov 2, 2013

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A quick alias in irssi to save the scrollback log to a file. I recently turned on logging (/set autolog ON), and wanted to save what scrollback I'd kept as well. After some reading up, this should add the /logsb command, which stores logs for the current channel in the same place as the default logging, in files tagged .scrollback.log. The alias…
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/alias logsb lastlog -file ~/irclogs/${tag}/${C}.${F}_${Z}.scrollback.log
@zoobab

zoobab commented Dec 30, 2015

17:52 -!- Irssi: Alias logsb added
17:52 -!- Irssi: Could not open lastlog: No such file or directory

Any idea what I should install to make it work? I installed the package "userinfo" to have the lastlog command on the shell, but that does not seem to be the same as this one.
@nicowilliams

nicowilliams commented Oct 27, 2016 

/alias logsb eval lastlog -file ~/irclogs/${tag}/${C}.${F}_${Z}.scrollback.log

Works for me. You have to mkdir ~/irclogs/freenode or whatever the "server tag" is.
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