CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Brad
Brad

Reputation: 33

Log file showing up empty

I have script that outputs a log file, now I need to read this log file and create a new log file for when it finds the words WARNING & ERROR and i need it to write the line number and output an error code from 0-20 for ERROR and 21-40 for WARNING, but everytime I rn the script my ExitCodeLog.lg is empty.

$file =  'H:\REPO\ADNEW\Testlog.log'#@(Get-ChildItem -Filter Remove-StallUserObjects_*.log)[-1]
$lineNumber = 0
$errorCode = 0
$warningCode = 21
$output = ForEach ($line in $file) {
    $lineNumber++
    if ($errorCode -eq 20) {
        $errorCode = 0
    }
    if ($warningCode -eq 40) {
        $warningCode = 21
    }
    if ($line -cmatch " ERROR: ") {
        "$lineNumber $errorCode"
        $errorCode++

    }
    if ($line -cmatch " WARNING: ") {
        "$lineNumber $warningCode"
        $warningCode++

    }
}
$output | Out-File -FilePath 'H:\REPO\ADNEW\ExitCodeLog.log'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 150

Answers (1)

Peter Schneider
Peter Schneider

Reputation: 2929

The first problem is, that the contents of $file is a plain string.

You should use

$file = get-content 'H:\REPO\ADNEW\Testlog.log'

Furthermore you can optimize the first two if statements by using a modulo operator:

$errorcode = $errorcode % 20
$warningcode = 21 + ($warningcode % 20)

Upvotes: 1

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