On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Robert Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just to be said. I am new to ruby.
>
> This should iterate over an array of files, read them and match the
> lines by a given pattern. And print to console, But how to proceed if i
> want all of the matched lines to be written to a new file?
You could invoke the script with an output redirection. That's just
one option, of course.
> $files = Array.new
>
> Dir.glob("**/Msg.log").entries.each { |n| $files.push(n) if
> File.file?(n) }
> puts "\n#{$files.size} files found\n"
>
> pattern = /(failed)/m
>
> $files.each do |element|
> f = File.open(element, 'r')
> lines = f.readlines
> lines.each do |line|
> if line.match(pattern)
> puts line
> end
> end
> f.close
> end
>
>
>
> I have tried different solutions as
> File.open('newfile.txt', 'w') do |wirte|
> write.puts(line)
>
> but it did not work
What was the issue? Can you share an error message?
> Any suggestions? Thanks
Watch your spelling.
Other than that: your task can be solved with other tools pretty easily
$ find . -type f -name Msg.log -exec fgrep failed {} + >newfile.txt
Kind regards
robert
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