Ruby script to naively consolidate a bunch of HexChat logs. You can figure out date order etc yourself. Mwahahahah

consolidate_logs.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Ruby script to consolidate all my log folders

require 'thread'

PREFIX="/home/#{`whoami`}/.config/hexchat/logs/"
FOLDERS=["freenode", "freenode over znc", "poke_freenode"]

file_q = Queue.new
threads = []

puts "\n---\nScanning the folders for logs..."
FOLDERS.each do |folder|
  log_dir = File.join(PREFIX, folder, "*.log")
  puts "Looking for logs in #{log_dir}"
  Dir.glob(log_dir) do |file|
    puts "Queuing file for copying: #{file}"
    file_q << file
  end
end

4.times do 
  threads << Thread.new do
    until file_q.empty?
      infile_name = file_q.pop 
      outfile_name = File.join("./freenode/", File.basename(infile_name))
      puts "Copying file #{infile_name} to #{outfile_name}"
      File.open(infile_name, "r") do |infile|
        File.open(outfile_name, "a") do |outfile|
          while line = infile.gets
            outfile.puts line
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

threads.map &:join
puts "Finished consolidating logs, hopefully."