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From Issue #178
February 2009

Feb 01, 2009  By Kyle Rankin
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Why wait for your awstats job to finish when you need custom log results now? Check out a quick-and-dirty Perl one-liner that creates speedy tallies from log files and is easy to tweak to suit your particular statistics needs.
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Kyle Rankin is a systems architect; and the author of DevOps Troubleshooting, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimedia Hacks, and Ubuntu Hacks.

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Hi, I think if you replace

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Submitted by agn (not verified) on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 00:30.

Hi,

I think if you replace that regex with a split, it'll be faster.

agn

Typo error in the explanation

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Submitted by holmmich on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 07:58.

"Once I have matched the IP address in a line and have assigned it to $1, I then use it as a key in a hash I call %v here and increment it ($h{$1}++)."

I think that $h should have been $v (as in the script).

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