I want to read the httpd-access.log and remove any oversized log records
I quickly tossed this script together. I manually mv-ed log to log.bak and touched a new logfile.
running the following with print i uncommented does print each line to stdout. but it doesn't write to the appropriate file...
a) what am I missing?
b) is there a less expensive way to do it?
c) I originally wanted to delete lines over 2085 in length but couldn't find a way to do that... did I miss it?
Thanks
#!/usr/local/bin/python
import os
srcfile = open('/var/log/httpd-access.log.bak', 'r')
dstfile = open('/var/log/httpd-access.log', 'w')
while 1:
lines = srcfile.readlines()
if not lines: break
# print lines
for i in lines:
if len(i) < 2086:
#print i
dstfile.write(i)srcfile.close() dstfile.close()
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