Bash script to extract Brickadia chat from game log files; for the Linux version of the game.

saveChatLog.sh

#!/bin/bash

# edit this if the brickadia directory is not in its default location
BRICKADIA_DIR=$HOME/.config/Epic/Brickadia/Saved
# path to save chatlogs to
CHATLOG_FOLDER=$BRICKADIA_DIR/ChatLogs

# make sure that the ChatLogs folder exists
[ ! -d $CHATLOG_FOLDER ] && mkdir -p $CHATLOG_FOLDER

# extract LogChat messages from all existing log files
for f in $BRICKADIA_DIR/Logs/Brickadia.log $BRICKADIA_DIR/Logs/Brickadia-backup-*.log $BRICKADIA_DIR/Crashes/*/Brickadia.log; do
	# if file doesn't actually exist, skip it
	[ ! -f $f ] && continue
	
	CHATLOG_FILE=$CHATLOG_FOLDER/Brickadia-Chat-$(date -r $f '+%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S').log
	# only save if the chatlog file doesn't already exist
	if [ ! -f $CHATLOG_FILE ]; then
		# skip logs that don't contain any chat
		! grep -q 'LogChat: ' $f && continue
		
		grep -R 'LogChat: ' $f > $CHATLOG_FILE
	fi
done