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+# script-logpye
+
+![help](screenshot/help.png)
+
+
+## usage
+
+* -h/--help			: displays help in picture above
+* -f/--file			: points to log file(is required)
+* -as/--asciisearch	: ascii text search, searches for a string in the log element
+* -rs/--regexsearch	: regex search, input valid regex to search for in log element
+* -fe/--frontend    : edit frontend printing this has to be valid python for now
+
+###example
+
+``python logpye.py -f core.log -as joystick``
+
+``python logpye.py -f core.log -rx "\bjoystick\b.*?\botn-inst01\b"``
+
+``python logpye.py -f core.log -as fathom -fe "error_level, logger, message, timestamp, thread"``
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+def itirate_of(logfile):
+    logging.debug("itirate_of")
+    lineCount = 0
+    start_flag = 0
+    elementarray = []
+    array2 = []
+    with open(logfile, "r") as ifile:
+        for line in ifile:
+            lineCount += 1
+            if "<log4j:event" in line:
+                logging.debug("found <log4j:event")
+                array2.append(line)
+                logging.debug("line: %s", line)
+                start_flag = 1
+
+            elif "</log4j:event>" in line:
+                logging.debug("found </log4j:event>")
+                start_flag = 0
+                array2.append(line)
+                logging.debug("line: %s", line)
+                elementarray.append(array2)
+                array2 = []
+
+            elif start_flag == 1:
+                logging.debug("startflag set")
+                array2.append(line)
+                logging.debug("line: %s", line)
+
+        return elementarray, lineCount
+
+
+def parse(xmlelement):
+    logging.debug("parse")
+    root = ET.fromstring(xmlelement)
+    message = root[0].text
+    logger = root.attrib['logger']
+    timestamp = root.attrib['timestamp']
+    error_level = root.attrib['level']
+    thread = root.attrib['thread']
+
+    return message, logger, timestamp, error_level, thread
+
+
+def ruleset(rule, message, logger, timestamp, error_level, thread):
+    logging.debug("ruleset")
+    compiled = message + logger + timestamp + error_level + thread
+    if args.regexsearch:
+        finder = re.findall(rule, compiled)
+        if finder:
+            frontend(message, logger, timestamp, error_level, thread)
+    if args.asciisearch:
+        if rule in compiled:
+            frontend(message, logger, timestamp, error_level, thread)
+    else:
+        if rule in compiled:
+            frontend(message, logger, timestamp, error_level, thread)
+
+
+def frontend(message, logger, timestamp, error_level, thread):
+    logging.debug("frontend")
+    if args.frontend:
+        print(eval(args.frontend))
+    else:
+        print("{}: {} - {}".format(error_level, logger, timestamp))
+
+
+def main(logfile, itir_file, ruleset, frontend):
+    logging.debug("main")
+    errors = 0
+    warns = 0
+    if args.asciisearch:
+        rule = args.asciisearch
+    elif args.regexsearch:
+        rule = args.regexsearch
+    else:
+        rule = ""
+    elementarray, lineCount = itir_file(logfile)
+    string = ""
+    for i in range(len(elementarray)):
+        xmlelement = "".join(elementarray[i])
+        message, logger, timestamp, error_level, thread = parse(xmlelement.replace("log4j:", "").rstrip('\n'))
+        ruleset(rule, message, logger, timestamp, error_level, thread)
+        if error_level == "ERROR":
+            errors += 1
+        if error_level == "WARN":
+            warns += 1
+
+
+if __name__ in '__main__':
+    import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+    import logging
+    import sys
+    import re
+    import argparse
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument('-f','--file', help='log4j file to parse', type=str, required=True)
+    parser.add_argument('-as','--asciisearch', help='ascii search pattern', type=str, required=False, default="")
+    parser.add_argument('-rs','--regexsearch', help='regex search pattern', type=str, required=False, default="")
+    parser.add_argument('-fe', '--frontend', help='customize output: message, logger, timestamp, error_level, thread', type=str, required=False, default="error_level, logger, timestamp")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    logging.basicConfig(format='%(levelname)s:%(message)s', level=logging.INFO)
+    main(args.file, itirate_of, ruleset, frontend)
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