ROS Answers SE migration: rosbag record

Question

Hi,

I'm trying to record all the topics on ros with rosbag, but there are some topics that I don't want, for exemple /cmd_vel and all the topics releted to the camera /camera/*.

I have tried with rosbag record -a -x "/cmd_vel" -x "/camera(.)" and it doesn't work, but if i try it separatley it does work and it donsen't record /cmd_vel or /camera is there some command to exclude from the record more than one topic or types of topics?

Thanks.

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Originally posted by apalomer on ROS Answers with karma: 318 on 2011-12-07

Post score: 1

Answer 1

How about this:

• rosbag record -a -x "((/cmd_vel)|(/camera(.*)))"

You can logically control the topics to exclude, using & or |, as you would in python

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Originally posted by phil0stine with karma: 682 on 2011-12-08

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 0

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Original comments

Comment by Mac on 2011-12-08:
Give or take the fact that getting regular expressions written down correctly (in shell, at that) can be a pain. I'd suggest a few minutes with xargs.