This gist is a python script to find text in files in a given directory... useful for searching log files. Grep works better but sometimes not a windows as well

findfz.py

#usage
#  ./findfz directory filefilter searchWord [searchWord2] [searchWord3] [searchWord4]

import glob
import sys

directory = "."
fileFilter = "*.*"

if len(sys.argv) > 3:
   print(sys.argv)
   directory = sys.argv[1]
   fileFilter = sys.argv[2]     
   targets = sys.argv[3:]
else:
   print("!!!usage should be ./findz.py directory filefilter searchWord [searchWord1] [searchWord...]")
   print("Using default usage")
   targets = ["Removing consumer", "error syncing einfo for consumer", "error"]

files =  glob.glob("{}/{}".format(directory, fileFilter))

for fileName in files:
   print("reading {}....".format(fileName))
   file = open(fileName)

   lineNumber = 0

   for line in file:
      lineNumber += 1  
      for target in targets:
         if target in line:
            print("{} found in {} on line {}".format(line, fileName, lineNumber))