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More Unix Nerdiness: xargs and tar

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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Unix commands for logfile parsing

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 [...]