To launch rxbag, pass the filenames of one or more bag files, e.g.

• $ rxbag trial1.bag trial2.bag

rxbag can take various command-line options, many of which are similar to rosbag:

• -h, --help

  • Show the usage and exit.

    $ rxbag record -h

• -s SEC, --start=SEC

  • Start SEC seconds into the bag files

    $ rxbag -s 10

  --record <topic-names>

  • Record to a bag file.

    $ rxbag --record tf wide_stereo/left/image_rect_color

  -a, --all

  • Record all topics.

    $ rxbag --record -a

    Note that newly published topics are discovered by periodically polling the master. rxbag record -a will likely miss initial messages published on any topic.

  -e, --regex

  • Match topics using regular expressions.

    $ rxbag --record -e "/(.*)_stereo/(left|right)/image_rect_color"

  -o PREFIX, --output-prefix=PREFIX

  • Prepend PREFIX to beginning of bag name before date stamp.

    $ rxbag --record -o session1 /chatter

  -O NAME, --output-name=NAME

  • Record to bag with name NAME.bag.

    $ rxbag --record -O session2_090210.bag /chatter

  -l NUM, --limit=NUM

  • Only record NUM messages on each topic.

    $ rxbag --record -l 1000 /chatter