In this chapter, we learned the forensic significance of a WAL file and how to parse it. We also briefly touched on how to use regular expressions in Python with the re module to create generic search patterns. Lastly, we utilized the tqdm module to create a progress bar in one line of code. The code for this project can be downloaded from GitHub or Packt, as described in the Preface.
In the next chapter, we'll be combining our knowledge from this entire book into a single framework. We'll design a framework that allows for basic pre-processing of common artifacts that we've covered. We'll demonstrate the framework design and development process and reveal the framework you've been secretly building throughout this book.
