Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 67 Location: San Francisco, California
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:26 pm Post subject: Script to parse message tracking logs
Hello,
Does anyone know of a script, or method in which I can parse log files and extract some specific information? I have about 100MB of Exchange message tracking logs. I need to figure out a way to go through this data and find all emails sent from 10 specific users, excluding emails sent internally, dates they were sent and produce this information in a spreadsheet.
This is the output I am trying to get from the logs
Code:
[Internal Sender]---[External Recipient]--[Date Sent]--[# of emails sent]
I have been trying to see if I could import them in to an Access table and then run a query against that. I have not been successful doing that.
Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 16777178 Location: California
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:07 pm Post subject:
A quick and dirty (and very ugly output) way would be to use the find command - but that won't give you the format you want. Perl would be my choice for something like this - if you don't know Perl, this would be an excellent excuse to learn it
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