Scenario:
there's a "runner script" already that executes the executable after setting up some environment variables; I've added an environment variable in front of it, that allows to "only" export the variable to pgcollect; while this works in general there's again the need to set the variable (in this case possibly the login script) and it is harder than necessary to set the a useful output file name...
Originally posted by @GitMensch in #23 (comment)
To solve this I'd like to have either replace options in the specified filename or extra flags to say "add the current timestamp and/or pid to the output name specified.
That would mean something like one of those:
pgcollect filename.pgdata -P-T -- command options
# would result in filename.pgdata.PidOfThatProcesss.CurrentTimeStamp
pgcollect filename.%T-%P.pgdata -- command options
# would result in filename.CurrentTimeStamp-PidOfThatProcesss.pgdata
(and should also work if -p PID is used)