About
There are zillion 'Search this and that' applications available
on the net, but none like FamEx. FamEx is small and handy
application for searching multiple words in multiple files (such
as log files). Search results are printed in output file. FamEx
offers more search criteria, including regular expressions.
FamEx was written during development of some application (called
FAM) which produced huge amounts of log files. When customer
reported he found a bug, it was a nightmare searching 300 MB of
log files looking for some phantom bug. I desperately needed some
extracer to search for specific Strings in many log files to find
that nasty creature (bug). FamEx was born.
FamEx is open source project. It is written in Java. Use it freely and wisely.
I am proud to announce that FamEx has been added to Softpedia's database of
software programs. It can be found here:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/FamEx.shtml
User guide
FamEx is a console application - it means it has no GUI. Anyway
you don't need it, because it would complicate things. The beauty
of FamEx is that it is written in Java and should run on all
systems with JRE 1.4 or above installed (OS X, Win, Unix). Just
unzip and run .sh script on X-like systems and .bat script on Windows.
As said, application developers might find it very handy when
searching many log files. FamEx supports .txt or .log
document types with plain text in it, but any file with readable
characters might fit as well.
All you need to do is to modify configuration.txt
file and run FamEx:
1. In the [files] section write a list of files that
you would like to search. Keep in mind that files listed first
will be also searched first.
2. Then under the [strings] section write a list of
words, that you would like to search for.
3. Advanced users can write a list of regular expressions that
might match searching pattern under [regex] section.
Regular expressions must be entered in the way that Java
understands them (no additional validation is used within FamEx).
4. Run application. On X-like operating systems run FamEx from
command line with ./runFamEx.sh script; on Windows
execute runFamEx.bat script.
The lines that matched your search criteria are written in new
file output.log... Funny, but the result of
processing is yet another log file, that you must search again by
the hand, but it is definitely much shorter.
Advanced
Startup scripts start JVM with VM parameters listed below. The
values can be modified by user.
-DcfgFilePath=configuration.txt - relative or absolute path to
configuration file. File name must match the name of the
configuration file.
-DoutputFile=output.txt - File name of output file.
-DappendOutText=true - Append output to existing file or overwrite
file every time.
Download
FamEx is completely redesigned, because of poor performace in
previous version.
Current version: 2.0.2
Download latest build:
FamEx_v2.0.2.zip
Download source code:
FamEx_v2.0.2_source.zip
To test FamEx application download some test logs:
FamEx_test_logs.zip
If you believe you found a bug, please report to: matjaz@matjazcerkvenik.si
Disclaimer
I do not take any responsibility regarding the usage (or misusage) of FamEx application.