[Tutor] 2016-02-01 Filter STRINGS in Log File and Pass as VARAIBLE within PYTHON script

[knnleow GOOGLE]

hello all,

trying out on how to port my unix shell script to python.
get more complicated than i expected.....: (
i am not familiar with the modules available in python.

anyone care to share how to better the clumsy approach below.

regards,
kuenn


                 timestamp02 = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S")
                 banIPaddressesFile = os.popen("cat 
/var/log/fail2ban.log| egrep ssh| egrep Ban| egrep " + myDate + "| awk 
\'{print $7}\'| sort -n| uniq >/tmp/banIPaddressesFile." + 
timestamp02).read()
                 banIPaddresses = open("/tmp/banIPaddressesFile." + 
timestamp02,mode="r",encoding="utf-8")
                 print("banIPaddresses:")
                 print(banIPaddresses)
                 for banIP in banIPaddresses:
                         #print("banIP:", banIP)
                         banIP1 = banIP.rstrip("\n")
                         print("BanIPaddress:", banIP1)
                         whoisIP = os.popen("whois -H " + banIP1 + " 
|egrep -i \"name|country|mail\" |sort -n |uniq").read()
                         print("whoisIP:", whoisIP)