Documenting software-updates semi-automatically in MacOS X by parsing log files?
- by Martin
I'd like to document changes I made to my computer (running MacOS 10.6.8) to be able to identify the sources of eventual problems.
Mostly I install updates when a software notifies me about a newer version and offers me a dialog to download and install the update.
Currently I'm documenting those updates "by hand" by noting in a text file, when I have e. g. installed a Flash-Player update or updated another 3rd party software ...
I wonder if I could achieve that easier and semi-automatically by parsing system logfiles for certain texts like "install" and that way directly get the relevant information:
what has been installed (Software and version)
when has been installed
where has it been installed/what has changed
Is there a way to extract such information by a script from the existing logfiles?