How to pass a text file to fabric

[poezie]

So I have used pbpaste. yt and echo to pass information to fabric , does anyone know how to pass a file ? for example I have a document or log file I would like to analyze is there a way to pass a pdf, docx, xls, or txt to fabric to run patterns agains that information ?

[SlicksRoboto]

I am also curious about this.

How do I pass a log file to fabric? Cant be so that I need to copy paste all info from the logs.

PLease advise.

[pedroibl]

1. Copy the logs you wish to analyze.

2. Paste them into a Markdown file and save it in the contexts directory (e.g., logs.md).
   path: .config/fabric/contexts

3. After saving the file, execute the following command in your terminal:

fabric -C logs.md | analyze_logs -c

[SlicksRoboto]

I don´t know if this helps but I did this for analyzing logs in windows/powershell:

Get-Content .\path\to\logfile.log* | --pattern analyze_logs and it worked (*obviously you have to refer to your own path structure)
So you need to reference to the folder/files you want to have analyzed based on what system you are using and you are good to go.

I do agree that there should be more examples on how to use the different patterns, in all systems (mac, win, lin)

[snafu4]

Maybe I'm missing something but it appears you are making this far more complicated that it needs to be.

cat <filename>

will stream/show contents of the file <filename> in powershell or linux

fabric -p summarize

will summarize anything that is stream/sent to it so:

cat <filename> | fabric -p summarize

will summarize <filename>

[arcy24]

-p analyze_logs does a great job as well!