[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is there a simple way in perl, python, or awk/shell/pipe, that gets > the user agent field in a apache log? > > e.g. the typical line is like this: > > 189.139.109.235 - - [07/Apr/2008:00:00:16 -0400] "GET / > Periodic_dosage_dir/lacru/manara.html HTTP/1.1" 200 1933 xahlee.org > "http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/lacru/manara2.html" "Mozilla/ > 5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 > Firefox/2.0.0.13" "-" > > I want the part: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv: > 1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13". >
C:\junk>type xah.py import cStringIO, csv, pprint line = '''189.139.109.235 - etc etc etc''' f = cStringIO.StringIO(line) reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter=" ") row = reader.next() pprint.pprint(row) C:\junk>xah.py ['189.139.109.235', '-', '-', '[07/Apr/2008:00:00:16', '-0400]', 'GET / Periodic_dosage_dir/lacru/manara.html HTTP/1.1', '200', '1933', 'xahlee.org', 'http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/lacru/manara2.html', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Fi refox/2.0.0.13', '-'] If you don't like that, just hang about -- there's sure to be a pyparsing bus coming by real soon now :-) Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list