Building a Lightweight Debugging Agent
image generated by meta ai Building a Lightweight Debugging Agent: Python, Perl, and Awk In modern development, especially when managing massive log files from platforms like GitLab, sending raw data directly to an LLM is inefficient . This post explores how to build a terminal-level tool that pre-processes logs and searches codebases using a combination of classic Unix concepts and Python . 1. The Quick & Dirty: Unix Tools For simple recursive string searches, Unix tools remain the fastest starting point . Using Grep + Awk You can use grep for the search and awk for filtering or formatting the output . Bash grep -rn "your_string" /path/to/project | awk -F: '{print "File: "$1", Line: "$2", Match: "$3}' -r : Recursive search -n : Show line numbers Usi...