3 Apr
2009
3 Apr
'09
10:56 a.m.
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:50:46AM +0100, Tom Brown wrote:
I need to find out how many times an IP address appears in a file - the IP is the first field in the access log string so what would be the best way to sort this file and count how many times each IP address appears ?
Depends on what the seperator is between the columns. If it's a space (as with httpd logs) then cut -d' ' -f1 FILE | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
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rgds
Stephen