[Tutor] Grepping a file for words in a list

[John Purser]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:23:22 -0800 (PST)
Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> 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 grep -F <LIST> <LOG_FILE> but it's VERY
> > slow.  Can anyone suggest a faster method to do this?
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> This should not be slow, but we have to see what exactly is going on
> here. Can you give us more details?  How many keywords are you
> typically passing in <LIST>?  How large is the <LOG_FILE>?  What do
> you mean by "slow"?
> 


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Danny, 

"what exactly is going on" is that I'm a doofus who will spend hours
figuring out exactly what command string will get grep to work but then
won't bother to put it in his code!!!

DOH!!!

John