ZMFILTER(1)

💅 ZMFILTER(1) — like, the ZoneMinder event-filtering era 💖

okay bestie, so this is zmfilter.pl, a ZoneMinder tool to filter events. it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and it is so much more chill than it sounds, i promise 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lowkey the whole vibe in one code block, no cap:

zmfilter.pl [-f <filter name>,--filter=<filter name>]
[--filter_id=<filter id>] | -v, --version

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

bestie. listen. this script is the friend who never stops checking up on things. it continuously monitors the recorded events for the given monitor, and then it applies any filters that would delete and/or upload the events that match. that's it. that's the whole job. it just sits there, watching, filtering, slaying 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -f{filter name}, --filter={filter name} — the name of a specific filter to run 🦋
• --filter_id={filter id} — the id of a specific filter to run 🌈
• -v, --version — print the ZoneMinder version, iconic behaviour, love that for us ⭐

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💜 a lil sign-off 💜

this page was cooked up by the User Contributed Perl Documentation girlies, it's running on perl v5.40.1, and it was last touched on 2026-02-01. stay filtered, stay iconic, bye bestie 🎀✨🦋