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 -- rgds Stephen _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
