What's your method for viewing and organizing your old IRC chat logs?
reddit / irc

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DentalPatient2222 · 2020-01-30 00:46

As part of cleaning my backlog, I got to my old IRC logs. I have a lot
re-reading to do, but the logs are all over the place.

My dream would be to drag all the files into a calendar-like program
that sorts the logs by date and i'd be able to read them all as they
were sent.

For now, I'm just focusing on reading the logs channel by channel and
keeping notes of things manually to make a timeline of the past.

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benburhans · 2020-01-30 02:17

grep. The files are already named and therefore ordered by date. I
have never had to sit down and read multiple whole log files that may
each be megabytes long; it is always seeking to a specific timestamp
or conversation with something like grep, less, or vim.

What are you "keeping notes of"? That's what the automatic logs are
for...

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DentalPatient2222 · 2020-01-30 02:37

I used to be on several indie projects and I used to use IRC to keep
track of and help coordinate them. I've been making a list of
contacts, concepts, methods, and other useful things as sort of a
review of my past.

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OMGItsCheezWTF · 2020-01-30 06:46

I mean mine are already organised, I've got an irc logs folder, it's
in the form:

    network/channel/yyyy-mm-dd.log

I've got ~15GB of logs going back to 2001 across 5 IRC networks.

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benburhans · 2020-01-31 01:55

Use `grep`, `sort -u` or `uniq`, and/or `sed`/`awk`/`ed` to generate a
distinct list of interesting tokens from your logs, like usernames or
commits. If the data you're looking to enumerate are not structured
enough for that, then your choices are machine learning or poring over
it as a human.