This question is nostalgic. The article below was
my first public suggestion to the Stata community.
STB-19 os13 . . Using awk and fgrep for selective extraction from log files
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
5/94 pp.15--17; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.78--80 (no commands)
explanation of how to use awk to selectively extract comments
from log files; explanation of how to use fgrep to selectively
extract lines from log files
As in another thread, there are shell solutions,
scripting language solutions, text editor solutions, and Stata solutions.
These days a more Stataish way to do it would be to use -file-
to strip the commands. Borrowing some logic from -log2html-,
this rudimentary program strips lines starting with "{com}"
from files and otherwise passes lines through:
*! 1.0.0 NJC 5 August 2004
program stripcom
version 8
syntax anything(name=smclfile) [ , replace ]
// filenames and handles
tempname hi ho
tempfile resfile
local ncfile : subinstr local smclfile ".smcl" ""
local ncfile : subinstr local ncfile ".SMCL" ""
local ncfile : subinstr local ncfile `"""' "", all
local ncfile : subinstr local ncfile "`" "", all
local ncfile : subinstr local ncfile "'" "", all
local ncfile `"`ncfile'.nc"'
// line-by-line processing
file open `hi' using `"`smclfile'"', r
file open `ho' using `"`ncfile'"', w `replace'
file read `hi' line
while r(eof) == 0 {
if index(`"`line'"', "{com}") != 1 {
file write `ho' `"`macval(line)'"' _n
}
file read `hi' line
}
file close `ho'
di _n `"no commands file `ncfile' created"'
end
That's no use unless your log files are in SMCL
(SMCL Makes Cooler Logs)*
Nick
[email protected]
(or: SMCL Makes Cooler Lectures, as demonstrated by Vince
Wiggins in London in June and in Boston in August)
Michael S. Hanson
> I have been wondering if there might be a way to only
> show command
> results and text explicitly displayed in the log file (or in the
> Results window in certain cases), rather than all the
> commands as well.
> Conceptually (I think), a -log- file with the contents of -cmdlog-
> stripped out. I haven't been able to track down any ado files that
> might achieve that goal....
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