> I have to monitor some hefty (min 40MB) log files. I have a > list of keywords that I want to search for and then write > those lines out to a different file. Basically I want to do this. Its always fun writing stuff in Python, but I'd have thought the easiest and fastest way to do this was egrep... C:\> egrep 'keyword1|kywrd2' logfile.txt > results.txt Just a thought... Alan g.