from sys import stdin borg_output = stdin.readlines() attributes = { "Archive name: " : "", "Archive fingerprint: " : "", "Time (start): " : "", "Duration: " : "", "Number of files: " : "", } for i in range(0, len(borg_output)): for key in attributes: if borg_output[i].startswith(key): attributes[key] = borg_output[i] \ .strip(key) \ .strip("\n") output = open("borg.txt", "w") for key, value in attributes.iteritems(): output.write("%s%s\n" % (key, value)) output.close()