Apple Crash Report Cleanup Script

README.md

A lot of the time, crash reports sent via email get a bit garbled over the wire, and Xcode won't symbolicate them. It turns out that a lot of email clients (including Apple Mail) are the cause of this.

This script takes a crash report and cleans it up so that Xcode likes it.

Usage:

$ cat example.crash | cleanup.py
<spews out goodness>

cleanup.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import re

hexline = re.compile(r'0x[a-f0-9]{5,8} - 0x[a-f0-9]{5,8}')
buffer = ""
for line in sys.stdin:
    if hexline.match(line):
        print buffer.replace('\n', '')
        buffer = line
        continue

    if buffer:
        buffer += line
        continue

    print line,