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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+#
+# An example script that converts messages in a syslog file into a
+# CSV-formatted file.  The CSV file is written to the current directory
+# with the same base name as the source file.  If the script is run on
+# the same file multiple times, it will only convert newly added lines.
+#
+# NOTE: lnav is going to save some state in $HOME; you might want to change
+# $HOME to something else...
+#
+# NOTE 2: Unfortunately, this is pretty inefficient right now since lnav
+# is going to store the entire log file in memory when processing the
+# result of the SQL SELECT.
+#
+
+if test $# -lt 1; then
+    echo "usage: $0 <path>"
+    echo "Convert a syslog file into CSV format."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if test ! -f "$1"; then
+    echo "error: expecting a log file as the first argument"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Figure out a unique file name.
+out_file_base=$(basename "$1")
+counter=0
+while test -e "${out_file_base}.${counter}.csv"; do
+    counter=$((counter + 1))
+done
+export OUT_FILE="${out_file_base}.${counter}.csv"
+
+# Here's a quick summary of what this is doing:
+#
+# 1. ':load-session' will load the session data which stores which lines
+#    are bookmarked in a file.  We're using bookmarks to keep track of the
+#    last line that we converted in a previous run of this script.
+# 2. ';CREATE TABLE helper' creates a temporary table that we use to store
+#    the range of messages that we'll be converting.
+# 3. ';INSERT INTO helper' will figure out the range of lines in syslog file
+#    to convert.
+# 4. ';UPDATE syslog_log' will set a bookmark on the last line of the range
+#    we computed in the previous step.
+# 5. ';SELECT *' will pull all of the log messages in the computed range.
+# 6. ':write-csv-to' will write out the log messages SELECTed in step #5.
+# 7. ':save-session' will save the bookmark we set so it can be loaded on
+#    future runs of this script.
+
+lnav -nq -d /tmp/lnav.err \
+    -c ":load-session" \
+    -c ";CREATE TABLE helper ( start_line int, max_line int )" \
+    -c ";INSERT INTO helper ( start_line, max_line ) VALUES (\
+        (SELECT coalesce(\
+            (SELECT max(log_line) FROM syslog_log where log_mark = 1) + 1,\
+            0)),\
+        (SELECT max(log_line) FROM syslog_log ))" \
+    -c ";UPDATE syslog_log SET log_mark = 1 where log_line = (\
+          SELECT max_line FROM helper)" \
+    -c ";SELECT *,log_text FROM syslog_log where log_line between (\
+        SELECT start_line FROM helper) and (SELECT max_line FROM helper)" \
+    -c ':write-csv-to $OUT_FILE' \
+    -c ":save-session" \
+    "$1"