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December 10, 2018 18:52
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This gist is a python script to find text in files in a given directory... useful for searching log files. Grep works better but sometimes not a windows as well
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#usage | |
# ./findfz directory filefilter searchWord [searchWord2] [searchWord3] [searchWord4] | |
import glob | |
import sys | |
directory = "." | |
fileFilter = "*.*" | |
if len(sys.argv) > 3: | |
print(sys.argv) | |
directory = sys.argv[1] | |
fileFilter = sys.argv[2] | |
targets = sys.argv[3:] | |
else: | |
print("!!!usage should be ./findz.py directory filefilter searchWord [searchWord1] [searchWord...]") | |
print("Using default usage") | |
targets = ["Removing consumer", "error syncing einfo for consumer", "error"] | |
files = glob.glob("{}/{}".format(directory, fileFilter)) | |
for fileName in files: | |
print("reading {}....".format(fileName)) | |
file = open(fileName) | |
lineNumber = 0 | |
for line in file: | |
lineNumber += 1 | |
for target in targets: | |
if target in line: | |
print("{} found in {} on line {}".format(line, fileName, lineNumber)) |
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