I have a bunch of Log files (saved as .txt) that contain a 'table' at the end of each log that I need to parse.
What do I mean by 'table'?
Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 332 332 332 0 0 0
Files : 1351 1087 264 0 0 0
Bytes : 1.621 g 1.222 g 408.39 m 0 0 0
I need to search each of these text files for any entries under the 'failed' header in the 'table'.
I am, at best, at an intermediate level with authoring and use of PowerShell but I know nothing about any other scripting languages.
How can this be done using PowerShell v. 5+?
I have searched online including StackOverflow but I think I may be using the wrong terminology for what I need to do.
Your question is unclear but assuming you have already accomplished the task of extracting those tables from your files, the following replacement pattern would work to convert the tables into CSVs then you can use ConvertFrom-Csv and treat them as objects. For instance, using the table in question:
$csv = @'
Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 332 332 332 0 0 0
Files : 1351 1087 264 0 0 0
Bytes : 1.621 g 1.222 g 408.39 m 0 0 0
'@ -replace '(?: :)? {2,}', ',' | ConvertFrom-Csv -WA 0
This would result into the following array of objects:
H1 Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
-- ----- ------ ------- -------- ------ ------
Dirs 332 332 332 0 0 0
Files 1351 1087 264 0 0 0
Bytes 1.621 g 1.222 g 408.39 m 0 0 0
Then you can simply filter or select as with any array of objects in PowerShell:
PS ..\pwsh> $csv | Select-Object FAILED
FAILED
------
0
0
0
PS ..\pwsh> $csv | Where-Object H1 -EQ Dirs
H1 : Dirs
Total : 332
Copied : 332
Skipped : 332
Mismatch : 0
FAILED : 0
Extras : 0
Regex details can be found here: https://regex101.com/r/miBU2f/1.