We had a need to search some text files in Windows modified during a certain time range with a given piece of text. This is a network drive that is not indexed, so we couldn’t quickly rely on a windows search.<\/p>\n
We came up with what is below…<\/p>\n
\r\nimport os\r\nfrom time import localtime\r\nfiles = os.listdir('w:\/nascar\/pimfeed\/ean\/')\r\nfor f in files:\r\n p = localtime(os.path.getmtime('w:\/nascar\/pimfeed\/ean\/' + f)) \r\n #find files modified since April 2014, inclusive\r\n if p[0] == 2014 and (p[1] >= 4):\r\n print \"processing\",f, \"modified on\",p[0],\"\/\",p[1],\"\/\",p[2]\r\n for line in open('w:\/nascar\/pimfeed\/ean\/' + f,\"r\"):\r\n if line.find(\"1187574362005036\") > -1:\r\n print f,\"has it!\"\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We had a need to search some text files in Windows modified during a certain time range with a given piece of text. This is a network drive that is not indexed, so we couldn’t quickly rely on a windows…<\/p>\n