Program to parse logs...?

[Xavious]

So i've recorded a log of an in-game meeting in Unreal (Well it was WoW but WoW isn't unreal-related) but it's full of other bumph also... www.edgeways.wowgr.net/filedump/log.txt for an example of what i mean...

Anyone know a program i can use to automatically take out those lines containing [8.hcraids] and [7.edgeways]?

Hehe big problem with WoW is the technical-minded folk are few and far between...

Thanks.

[}TCP{Cee]

Guess not
Then dunno

[the_kay]

hm...
you could write a small shell script...
something like that...if you are running a unix-like machine...

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cat log.txt | egrep KLHTM > log2.txt
comm -23 log.txt log2.txt > finallog.txt
cat finnallog.txt

(btw: this code doesn't really work and I don't have an idea, why not. log2.txt does not seem to be the problem, comm doesn't seem to do what I want...tell me if you know the bug)

[Xavious]

Hehehe i downloaded lots of programs and visited lots of sites that told me similar things but i'm afraid it's all above my skill...

I'm sure somebody somewhere has made a simple program for these kind of things...

[}TCP{Wolf]

EMAIL ME!

[Xavious]

Email you what? The contents of the first post?

[}TCP{Wolf]

Yup...

[}TCP{Wolf]

never mind... you got mail...

[}TCP{aLICe]

ehhhhhhhh.... to late

BTW: I have seen something like unix-like shell for Win$ - some GPL stuff. Just run it and type one line:

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grep '\[8.hcraids\]\|\[7.edgeways\]' log_file_name > filtered_log_file_name [ENTER]

Now you have all lines containing [8.hcraids] or [7.edgeways] in filtered_log_file_name file

[}TCP{ZzCaT]

ehhhhhhhh.... to late

BTW: I have seen something like unix-like shell for Win$ - some GPL stuff. Just run it and type one line:

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grep '\[8.hcraids\]\|\[7.edgeways\]' log_file_name > filtered_log_file_name [ENTER]

Now you have all lines containing [8.hcraids] or [7.edgeways] in filtered_log_file_name file

Linux is for nerds.

[the_kay]

ehhhhhhhh.... to late

BTW: I have seen something like unix-like shell for Win$ - some GPL stuff. Just run it and type one line:

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grep '\[8.hcraids\]\|\[7.edgeways\]' log_file_name > filtered_log_file_name [ENTER]

Now you have all lines containing [8.hcraids] or [7.edgeways] in filtered_log_file_name file

Well that's what I got, too.
But the question was:

Anyone know a program i can use to automatically take out those lines containing [8.hcraids] and [7.edgeways]?

The filtered_log_file_name file contains only those lines with 8.hcraids and 7.edgeways.
The opposite is needed, not 8.hcraids-lines are needed but those without 8.hcraids.

That's why I compared the orginal log.txt (contains lines with and without strings like 8.hcraids) with the log2.txt (contains only strings with 8.hcraids).

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comm -23 log.txt log2.txt

comm should normally compare two files (in this case log.txt and log2.txt) and print:
1. all lines that are log.txt but not in log2.txt
2. all lines that are log2.txt but not in log.txt
3. all lines that are in both files the same.

Only point 1 is needed, therefor I remove others with the option -23

I have no idea why it is not working...

Linux is for nerds.

GNU/Linux is for both nerds and non_nerds (although nerds get more adventages)

[the_kay]

well on IRC I got another code that workes just fine:

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cat file | perl -e 'while(<>) { /unwantedstring/ || print; } ' > outfile

So you can send me the file, too, if you don't have a unix-like machine and do it yourself.

[Xavious]

Hehe well Wolf helped me out over email, so it's sorted now. I guess there's many ways to parse a log file like that, i just couldn't get my head around any of them...

Thanks Wolf and all! You is my heroes!

[}TCP{aLICe]

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grep -v 'unwantedstring' > outfile

[the_kay]

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grep -v 'unwantedstring' > outfile

nice
Sometimes it's easier to read a manpage then to write a script....