Re: [Tutor] Grepping a file for words in a list

2006-02-26 Thread Alan Gauld
"John Purser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > I'm writing a system admin script in python that checks recently > accessed files for keywords like "failed, denied, error,..." etc. I'm > using popen to call grep -F but it's VERY slow. Can > anyone suggest a faster method to do this? are

Re: [Tutor] Grepping a file for words in a list

2006-02-25 Thread Alan Gauld
"John Purser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > I'm writing a system admin script in python that checks recently > accessed files for keywords like "failed, denied, error,..." etc. I'm > using popen to call grep -F but it's VERY slow. Can > anyone suggest a faster method to do this? are

Re: [Tutor] Grepping a file for words in a list

2006-02-24 Thread John Purser
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:23:22 -0800 (PST) Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, John Purser wrote: > > > I'm writing a system admin script in python that checks recently > > accessed files for keywords like "failed, denied, error,..." etc. > > I'm using popen to call gr

Re: [Tutor] Grepping a file for words in a list

2006-02-24 Thread Danny Yoo
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, John Purser wrote: > I'm writing a system admin script in python that checks recently > accessed files for keywords like "failed, denied, error,..." etc. I'm > using popen to call grep -F but it's VERY slow. Can > anyone suggest a faster method to do this? Hi John, Thi

Re: [Tutor] Grepping a file for words in a list

2006-02-24 Thread Bob Gailer
John Purser wrote: > Hello, > > I'm writing a system admin script in python that checks recently > accessed files for keywords like "failed, denied, error,..." etc. I'm > using popen to call grep -F but it's VERY slow. Can > anyone suggest a faster method to do this? > I don't know whether i

[Tutor] Grepping a file for words in a list

2006-02-24 Thread John Purser
Hello, I'm writing a system admin script in python that checks recently accessed files for keywords like "failed, denied, error,..." etc. I'm using popen to call grep -F but it's VERY slow. Can anyone suggest a faster method to do this? Thanks, John Purser Ubuntu Linux Python 2.4 -- Courag