Option to ignore lines that don't have valid timestamp?

[RTnhN]

I am working with some logs that have some other content sprinkled in. I would be fine with removing it though as long as it could still merge based on the lines that do have the right log format. So basically, it would be great to have an option that just ignored all invalid lines.

[ptmcg]

The non-timestamped content shouldn't break the merging of the logs, it just appends the non-timestamped content as part of the most recent timestamped line.

But I have a working update that drops non-timestamped logs altogether - the switch is "--ignore_non_timestamped". You'll be able to see it in the demo mode using "logmerger --demo --ignore_non_timestamped"

[ptmcg]

Before:

After:

The double log messages at 08:00:11 are there because there were two separate log messages in the same log with the same timestamp. SInce both messages were timestamped, they were both kept.

[RTnhN]

Ah, cool! I'll have to try it.

[ptmcg]

I haven't pushed a release with this yet, but you can pull it from the master branch in the repo.