pycmdCollector

pycmdCollector is a command line utility to dump all command line output to log files for further analysis. It requires a command list receipe using 'csv' format to run this tool.

Usage: pycmdCollector <command recipe>

<command list recipe format>: Use ',' to separate the {command} and {logfile}
command1, logname1
command2, logname2
...,...

Ex:

ls -l, ls.log

myapp -A1 -t -s -a0, myapp0.log

$ python pycmdCollector.py linuxcmd.csv
COMMAND LINE LOG COLLECTION OOL
Author: Rick Lin / VERSION: 0.0.1
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Input command file: [linuxcmd.txt]
Dumping (dmesg) to dmesg.log
Dumping (time) to time.log
Dumping (ls -l) to ls.log
$

It will generate a zip with all above command list. Ex: 2014-11-05-130344_cmdline_logs.zip

OR

Standalone mode: (Linux only)

$ ./pycmdLogger linuxcmd.txt

Feature

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TODO:

• Convert to Standalone executable file on both Windows and Linux
• Parser
• Viewer
• GUI interface

Convert Python to binary executable file on windows and linux

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• Windows: py2exe
• Linux: Freeze Reference Link: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/shipping/freezing/

####v0.0.2

1. Supports PyWin32 to dump Windows System Event Log

####v0.0.1

1. Supports Windows and Linux log dump
2. Tests on Windows 7 and RHEL6.3 x86-64
3. Package.sh is a shell script to bundle the python script into one standalone file(For Linux only)

Document links

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• github.io
• readthedocs