| Alan Grant wrote: |
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I have searched the Elog forum and docs at length for actual examples of how to use the Elog client and I apologize if I missed it somehwere but could someone please provide some actual examples of how the parmeters are used? I haven't had much success setting it up just going by the Elog command syntax quide.
What I intend to do is load a raw text file into an active logbook directly, either one line at at time or batched from a text file ("m" option).
Also, I saw a Perl script contribution somewhere on the site which appears to offer the same functionality as the above util. Just wondering why there would be two methods, and which might be the best for me to use? Thank you.
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I suppose you have your demon "elogd" running and you can connect to your logbook via the web interface?
Then you can use the "elog" command to upload a text file as one entry.
If you want to split the text file to one-entry-per-line, you need to write a batch script to do that.
The usage of the "elog" command is descibed in the ELOG User's Guide: https://midas.psi.ch/elog/userguide.html#misc
The command line for "elog" has to define all "Required attributes" with "-a ..."
elog -h <host> -p <port> -l <logbook> -u <user> <password> -a <attribute>=<value> -n 1 -m <text-file>
<port> can be omitted if port 80 is used, "-u <user> <password>" can be omitted if anonymous entry creation is allowed.
Here's an example to write to the demo logbook at midas (local text file /tmp/hello.txt contains "hello world")
elog -h midas.psi.ch -l Linux+Demo -d elogs -a Author=nobody -a Type=Other -a Category=test -a "Subject=hello" -m /tmp/hello.txt
I hope this helps.
PS: please never refer to a location as "somewhere on the site". |