On 09/25/11 11:51 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > ... > 110925 13:09:43 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Incorrect key file for > table './ox_data_summary_ad_hourly.MYI'; try to repair it > [root@ log]# wc -l mysqld.log > 20686 mysqld.log > [root@ log]# cat mysqld.log | grep ERROR | wc -l > 20332 > [root@ log]# > > > Is there a way to get the most common (unique) lines of the file? sort -k 3 | uniq -f 2 which will sort starting at field 3, and then print lines that are unique, skipping the first 2 fields, where fields by default are blank separated. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast