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Ubuntu 12.04 and fuerte
I have a bag file of 400 seconds length.
I would like to split it into two bag files of 150 seconds and 250 seconds.
There is an option to split bag files while recording using option --split, but now I already have a recorded one.
What can be done?
Thanks
My answer is pretty redundant coming three years late, but for anyone else who asks this another option is to use the rosbag filter command, e.g.
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rosbag filter input.bag output.bag "t.secs <= 1284703931.86"
You can use the standard greater-than-or-equal-to (>=) and less-than-or-qual-to (<=) operators to keep all data before or after your cutoff point. Keep in mind that ROS time-stamps each message with Unix time, rather than the time of the message relative to the start of the record. So you'll need to find the start and end times of your record and do a bit of basic math to find the 150 sec point.
For other filter commands, take a look at rosbag/Commandline
I think the misleading part could be the use of seconds in this case because I believe the time-stamp is given in the computer's epoch time.
for bounding with a startpoint and an endpoint, the expression looks like this:
rosbag filter input.bag output.bag "t.secs >= 1531425960 and t.secs <= 1531426140"
I don't know if there's an existing utility for doing this, but it would be pretty simple to do using rosbag's python API. Check out the examples in the cookbook.
You could also try replaying it, and recording all messages with rosbag record -a --split --duration=250.
Here is a bash script to split a bag into two using a parameter from 0.0 to 1.0- 0.5 would produce two half length bags:
#!/bin/bash
# provide input bag, output bags prefix, and time fraction
echo $1, $2, $3
t0=`rosbag info -y -k start $1`
t1=`rosbag info -y -k end $1`
tfr=`echo "$t0 + ($t1 - $t0) * $3" | bc -l`
echo $t0, $t1, $tfr
rosbag filter $1 $2_a.bag "t.secs <= $tfr"
rosbag filter $1 $2_b.bag "t.secs > $tfr"
Asked: 2013-11-10 21:36:33 -0500
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Last updated: Nov 07 '21
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Is it not possible to just play back the bag and rerecord the topics using the --split option?