January 24, 2009 in Unix
Tags: ls, mv, tar, Unix, xargs | No Comments »
I didn’t want to do two Unix posts in a row, but something came up last week that made me dust off the xargs command. Even if you do a lot of logfile parsing, you probably won’t use xargs very much. But when you need it, it can save a ton of time.
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January 12, 2009 in Unix
Tags: awk, cut, grep, Logfiles, server logs, sort, uniq, Unix | 2 Comments »
Although many web analysts use a JavaScript-tagged solution, some of us still do log analysis on one or more sites. Even when JS data is used, sometimes you have a troubleshooting situation that requires you to go back to your logs. If you have access to a Unix environment, commands like grep, cut, and awk [...]