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Searches MediaWiki exception.log(.gz) files for a specific exception string and prints the exception including stack trace.
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| #!/usr/bin/bash | |
| if [[ "$1" == "" ]] || [[ "$2" == "" ]] || [[ "$1" == "--help" ]]; then | |
| echo "Usage: $0 [-f] exception-log-file needle" | |
| echo | |
| echo "Searches exception.log(.gz) files for a specific exception string and prints the exception including stack trace." | |
| echo "Use -f to follow newly added lines (like tail -f). Needle is case-sensitive." | |
| exit | |
| fi | |
| cat="cat" | |
| if [[ "$1" == "-f" ]]; then | |
| cat="tail -f" | |
| shift | |
| fi | |
| file=$1 | |
| needle=$2 | |
| if [[ "$file" == *.gz ]]; then | |
| cat="zcat" | |
| fi | |
| readOn=0 | |
| $cat "$file" | grep -C100 -F "$needle" | while read -r line; do | |
| if [[ ! "$line" == 20*-*-*\ *:*:* ]]; then | |
| if [ $readOn -gt 0 ]; then | |
| echo "$line" | |
| fi | |
| continue | |
| fi | |
| readOn=0 | |
| if [[ "$line" == *"$needle"* ]]; then | |
| readOn=1 | |
| echo "$line" | |
| fi | |
| done |
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