begin Tim locke quotation: > Craig, Sorry about not being clear on my question. > It's because I'm having a hard time analysing large > amount of traffic logs and the fact that I'm not an > expert at scripting and what I was looking for was a > quick way to get the number of src ips.
Okay, but what does the input file (oos.txt) look like? I don't see how your script would apply to an apache access log, so I'm guessing this is some other program's log, but which one? If you still need help with this, please post a line or two of text that you expect to match the initial grep, and perhaps a line or two from the same file that should _not_ match the grep, and we'll see if your script ought to work, or if there might be a simpler way to do it. > grep '../..-..:..:' oos.txt | cut -d '>' -f 1 | > cut -d ' ' -f 2 | cut -d ':' -f 1 | tr -d ' ' | sort | > uniq -c | sort -nr > oos.log Craog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]