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pythonpython-2.7
Abhinav
Abhinav

Reputation: 314

Searching string from the list of files including path containing in text file

I am developing a script which will find particular key or string from the file path containing in text file. I have tried to run below code but I am getting error. 

import glob

print 'Named explicitly:'
for name in glob.glob('/apps/mongodba/*.conf'):
    with open('out.txt', 'a') as f:
         print >> f, name

with open("lst.txt", "w") as f:
    with open('out.txt') as currentFile:
        text = open(currentFile, "r")
        for line in text:
                if "26012" in line:
                    f.write('string found')
                else:
                    f.write('string not found')

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "find_y.py", line 11, in <module>
    text = open(currentFile, "r")
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, file found

cat out.txt:

>cat out.txt
/apps/mongodba/mongo.conf
/apps/mongodba/mongo_clust.conf

Desired output:

String found on file /apps/mongodba/mongo.conf

Upvotes: 0

Views: 77

Answers (1)

Tauseef Ahmed Taz
Tauseef Ahmed Taz

Reputation: 13

Not sure what actually you wanted to do but I see a bug in your code.

    text = open(currentFile, "r")

The above line is not correct. When you open() as currentFile. Here currentFile is an object not a string or byte.

Here is a fixed code.

with open("lst.txt", "w") as f:
    with open('out.txt') as currentFile:
        text = currentFile.readlines()
        for line in text:
                if "26012" in line:
                    f.write('string found')
                else:
                    f.write('string not found')

Edit: If you are not processing too many lines. Then you can do something like this. It is not the best way but a quick solution. 

things_to_write = []
with open('out.txt', r) as f:
    file_paths = f.readlines()
    for file_path in file_paths:
        with open(file_path.strip('\n') as a:
            text = a.read()
            if "26012" in text:
                string = 'Found' + file_path
            else:
                string = 'Not Found' + file_path
            thing_to_write.append(string)
with open('lst.txt', 'w') as wr:
    wr.writelines(things_to_write)

Upvotes: 1

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