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Parsing Syslog files with Python and PyParsing
$ python xlog.py sample.log
{'appname': 'test.app', 'timestamp': '2012-09-06 15:19:32', 'hostname': 'codezone.local', 'pid': '68898', 'priority': '132', 'message': 'bla bla bla warn'}
{'appname': 'test.app', 'timestamp': '2012-09-06 15:19:32', 'hostname': 'codezone.local', 'pid': '68902', 'priority': '131', 'message': 'bla bla bla error'}
{'appname': 'Dock', 'timestamp': '2012-09-06 15:19:32', 'hostname': 'codezone.local', 'pid': '154', 'priority': '11', 'message': 'CGSReleaseWindowList: called with 5 invalid window(s)'}
{'appname': 'WindowServer', 'timestamp': '2012-09-06 15:19:32', 'hostname': 'codezone.local', 'pid': '79', 'priority': '11', 'message': 'CGXSetWindowListAlpha: Invalid window 0'}
$ python xlog.py sample.log | grep test.app
{'priority': '132', 'timestamp': '2020-03-04 12:42:40', 'hostname': 'codezone.local', 'appname': 'test.app', 'pid': '68898', 'message': 'bla bla bla warn'}