Five one-liners for log diving

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07.10.2026 · 2 min

TITLE..........Five one-liners for log diving

DATE..........07.10.2026

TAGS..........bash, awk, logs

SIZE..........2 min

Nothing fancy, just the five commands that end up in my shell history every week.

[ ~/bin/logdive.sh ]

shell · 5L

1$ awk '{print $1}' access.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head

2$ grep ' 404 ' access.log | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

3$ tail -f access.log | grep --line-buffered -v 'bot'

4$ awk '$NF > 1.0' access.log | wc -l

5$ zcat access.log.*.gz | grep -c 'wp-login'

-- READ ONLY -- utf-8 · shell · 5 lines

$ awk '{print $1}' access.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
$ grep ' 404 ' access.log | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
$ tail -f access.log | grep --line-buffered -v 'bot'
$ awk '$NF > 1.0' access.log | wc -l
$ zcat access.log.*.gz | grep -c 'wp-login'

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