Eclipse Luna with JDK ?

bennyineire

Hey Peps,

I'm a recent graduate in Comp Sci and I've recently started a job on a helpdesk role. Part of my morning routine is check some log files on a server.
One log file has over 9000 entry's that are updated every night, so as you can imagine its a bit of a pain to do this check.
I was thinking I could write a simple java program to do a read file and print out any errors for me.
I'm pretty confidant that I can manage this.
So my question is before I download JDK does the new Eclipse Luna come with JDK or do I have download and run JDK first then run and install Eclipse Luna.
As you might guess I'm not a developer so I'm sorry if this seems a basic question.

counterpointaud

Is this a Linux environment ?

You may find shell scripts or commands more appropriate than Java for this type of task.

i.e.

grep --include=\*.{err,out,log,txt} -rnw '/path/to/logs/' -e "Error" 2>/dev/null

L.Jenkins

This might be worth checking out: https://code.google.com/p/otroslogviewer/

bennyineire

Hey guys thanks for your reply's, these seem like much better ideas

@counterpointaud , nope this is on a windows machine, is there a power-shell equivalent

@Itzy , this looks interesting will check it out

bennyineire

Itzy wrote: »

This might be worth checking out: https://code.google.com/p/otroslogviewer/

Does this require me to install JDK

L.Jenkins

I could be wrong, but I think the JRE should be fine.

bennyineire

Sure no harm in trying, I'll give it a whirl after lunch and report back

counterpointaud

bennyineire wrote: »

Hey guys thanks for your reply's, these seem like much better ideas

@counterpointaud , nope this is on a windows machine, is there a power-shell equivalent

Something like:

Get-ChildItem C:\path\to\file -Filter *.log -Recurse | Select-String "Error"

Not sure how to redirect to a file, or suppress file permission errors in Powershell. Handy when there is only likely to be few errors, but many log files in the same dir.

Aswerty

If you don't want to use Power Shell you could use Cygwin. Cygwin provides Windows with functionality common to most Linux distributions. It runs as a command line shell similar to Bash, etc. Packages you might want for Cygwin, for your use case, include grep and gawk. The project website is cygwin.com.

I'd agree with the others that for your use case you'd be better of using scripts or shell commands than building an application to process the logs.

bennyineire

counterpointaud wrote: »

Something like:

Get-ChildItem C:\path\to\file -Filter *.log -Recurse | Select-String "Error"

Not sure how to redirect to a file, or suppress file permission errors in Powershell. Handy when there is only likely to be few errors, but many log files in the same dir.

Thanks man this worked a treat, took me a while to get powershell to behave the way I wanted (i.e. to permit scripts to run) but got there in the end.

This will save me about 15 mins in the morning of looking at them fecking log files.

Yeah I learnt something useful today :P

L.Jenkins

See if you can run it as an automated task, so it could be ready and waiting in the morning when you arrive.

bennyineire

Even better, **** man at this rate the robots really will take over

L.Jenkins

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