No output using the Docker method

[TheCorp]

So I used the Docker method which seemed to work smoothly, I also used the helper.sh method to make it easier. I see no output though despite what seems to be a clean run... No output to be found... Am I doing something wrong here?

-bash: realpath: command not found
Copying and renaming attachments
Creating markdown files
Creating HTML files
Done!

[carderne]

Hi @TheCorp sorry that I'm only responding now.

If you can share the following details I can try to help you:

1. Your OS/version and whether you're using WSL or anything like that
2. What terminal/shell you're using
3. What command(s) you tried running.

[TheCorp]

No problem at all, I know this is a small side project!

1. Mac OS Monterey 12.4
2. iTerm2 / Bash (yes not the zsh default for 12.4)
3. I tried using the helper.sh thing so I was running signalexport output --chats=SomeChatName and the output is consistently what I listed in the original comment above. I can tell its actually doing something because when I don't specify a chat it runs for longer but I never see any output.

Any tips? Should I just go back and try the direct Docker method? ie something like this?

  -v "$SIGNAL_INPUT:/Signal" \
  -v "$SIGNAL_OUTPUT:/output" \
  carderne/signal-export:latest --overwrite --chats=Jim```

[TheCorp]

Ahhh man, I am very dumb. I had not set the env variables! I somehow missed that step. Maybe a better warning or error there would help the dummies like me. I got it working when trying to run the actual direct Docker commands rather than going directly to the helper.

That being said, the helper still doesn't work, not sure why. I can try and mess around with that again if you can't think of anything. Maybe something to do with the "realpath" command not found part?

[carderne]

Can you try changing helper.sh as follows and see if it works. (Baiscally, replace realpath with readlink -f.)

- output=$(readlink -f $1)
+ output=$(realpath $1)

I had a report #55 that readlink doesn't work, but some Googling suggests its more likely to work than realpath.

(Don't forget to resource the script afterwards source helper.sh).

[carderne]

Actually have a better solution. I just https://github.com/carderne/signal-export/commit/2b9ea75a7f3ee4e1d184920137503096a27db52c updated the helper.sh script to avoid the realpath issue.

Download/pull the latest version and try it out!

[TheCorp]

Huzzah, it works! Thanks man, this is great. Appreciate the extended help.

What's the best way to do feature requests? I think my only request at this point is to have a single page of full output of each chat (maybe separate from the paginated version) to make it easier to search. Not a huge issue regardless. Thanks again.

[carderne]

You can add -p 0 to get a non-paginated version.