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Efficent
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Jul 27, 2017, 12:50 AM

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Run prefix for script	Can't Post

Hello,

I have a script what converts .netxml and .gpsxl into a kml file.
( https://github.com/exp/Kismet-to-KML/blob/master/README )

But when i run the script: perl kismet2kml.pl it says that i must prefix .netxml and .gpsxml. Can someone explaine to me what prefix is and what i must do in this situation?

Laurent_R
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Jul 27, 2017, 2:38 AM

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Re: [Efficent] Run prefix for script [In reply to]	Can't Post

I have no idea what this is all about, but looking at the code, I can see that you have this line:

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my $prefix = $ARGV[0] or die "Please specify a prefix for gps and xml files";

This means that you need to supply a "prefix" as a command line argument when you launch the program. A "prefix" is presumably the name of the gps and xml files without the extension.

So you should probably run the program as follows:

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perl kismet2kml.pl file_name

when "file_name is the name of your files without the ".gps" or ".xml" extensions.

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