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Commands tagged uniq

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cat /var/log/nginx/access.log | grep -oe '^[0-9.]\+' | perl -ne 'system("geoiplookup $_")' | grep -v found | grep -oe ', [A-Za-z ]\+$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2012-05-08 13:28:25
User: theist
Functions: cat grep perl sort uniq
Tags: sort uniq geoip
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Per country GET report, based on access log. Easy to transform to unique IP

Per country GET report, based on access log. Easy to transform to unique IP

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find /some/path -type f -and -printf "%f\n" | egrep -io '\.[^.]*$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
2012-04-02 19:25:35
User: kyle0r
Functions: egrep find sort uniq
Tags: uniq ls grep
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list unique file extensions recursively for a path, include extension frequency stats

the

find -printf "%f\n" prints just the file name from the given path. This means directory paths which contain extensions will not be considered.
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cat z.log | cut -d ':' -f1,2 | uniq -c
2012-02-28 17:29:46
User: hute37
Functions: cat cut uniq
Tags: uniq
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Count loglines by time (minute)

depends on date format locale ...

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cat z.log | cut -d ':' -f1 | sort | uniq | xargs -l1 -iFF echo 'echo FF $(cat z.log | grep -e "^FF" | grep -e Timeout | wc -l )' | bash
2012-02-28 17:25:14
User: hute37
Functions: cat cut echo grep sort uniq wc xargs
Tags: uniq xargs
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Report summary of string occurrence by time period (hour) - alternate

useful to count events in logs

@see: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10327/report-summary-of-string-occurrence-by-time-period-hour#comment

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cat z.log | grep Timeout | cut -d ':' -f1 | sort | uniq -c
2012-02-28 17:22:17
User: hute37
Functions: cat cut grep sort uniq
Tags: uniq
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Report summary of string occurrence by time period (hour)

useful to count events in logs

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sed -e 's/[;|][[:space:]]*/\n/g' .bash_history | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=1 | sort | uniq --count | sort --numeric-sort --reverse | head --lines=20
2012-02-17 23:34:16
User: WissenForscher
Functions: cut head sed sort uniq
Tags: bash sort sed uniq
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Top 20 commands in your bash history
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netstat -Aan | grep .80 | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | grep EST | awk '{print $6}' | cut -d "." -f1,2,3,4 | sort | uniq
2012-02-03 13:54:11
User: janvanderwijk
Functions: awk cut grep netstat sort
Tags: sort uniq grep netstat cut aix
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See who are using a specific port

See who is using a specific port. Especially when you're using AIX. In Ubuntu, for example, this can easily be seen with the netstat command.

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awk -F":" '!list[$3]++{print $3}' /etc/passwd
2012-01-24 12:47:52
User: richard
Functions: awk
Tags: awk uniq duplicate uid /etc/passwd
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Find duplicate UID in /etc/passwd

You can use only awk

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awk -F: '{print $3}' /etc/passwd | sort |uniq -d
2012-01-17 11:16:35
User: ultips
Functions: awk sort uniq
Tags: uniq duplicate uid /etc/passwd
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Find duplicate UID in /etc/passwd

Detect duplicate UID in you /etc/passwd (or GID in /etc/group file).

Duplicate UID is often forbidden for it can be a security breach.

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tcpflow -c port 80 | grep Host
2012-01-05 05:38:57
User: kplimack
Functions: grep
Tags: uniq tail cut
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Realtime apache hits per second
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netstat -nt | awk -F":" '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c
2011-07-05 07:53:29
User: sreimann
Functions: awk netstat sort uniq
Tags: sort awk uniq netstat
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netstat with group by (ip adress)

count connections, group by IP and port

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perl -ne 'print if !$a{$_}++'
2011-02-17 02:18:44
User: doherty
Functions: perl
Tags: perl uniq text line unique
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uniq without pre-sorting

Reads stdin, and outputs each line only once - without sorting ahead of time. This does use more memory than your system's sort utility.

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find . -type f | awk -F'.' '{print $NF}' | sort| uniq -c | sort -g
2011-02-14 09:15:29
User: cp
Functions: awk find sort uniq
Tags: uniq ls grep
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list all file extensions in a directory

... plus do a sort according frequency

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ls | grep -Eo "\..+" | sort -u
2011-02-14 04:52:43
User: berr
Functions: grep ls sort
Tags: uniq ls grep
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list all file extensions in a directory

A shorter version

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ls -Xp | grep -Eo "\.[^/]+$" | sort | uniq
2011-02-10 20:47:59
User: Amarok
Functions: grep ls sort
Tags: uniq ls grep
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list all file extensions in a directory

Works on current directory, with built-in sorting.

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svn log -q | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -f2 -d "|" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
2011-01-03 15:23:08
User: kkapron
Functions: cut grep sort uniq
Tags: bash svn sort uniq grep unix cut
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top svn committers (without awk)

list top committers (and number of their commits) of svn repository.

in this example it counts revisions of current directory.

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tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' | sort | uniq -ci
2010-10-20 04:12:58
User: TheMightyBuzzard
Functions: sort tr uniq
Tags: sort uniq tr
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Generate list of words and their frequencies in a text file.

Gives the same results as the command by putnamhill using nine less characters.

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tr A-Z a-z | tr -cs a-z '\n' | sort | uniq -c
2010-10-19 22:49:13
User: putnamhill
Functions: sort tr uniq
Tags: sort uniq tr
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Generate list of words and their frequencies in a text file.
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ls | perl -lne '++$x{lc $1} if /[.](.+)$/ }{ print for keys %x'
2010-08-13 20:05:15
User: recursiverse
Functions: ls perl
Tags: sort uniq find extensions
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list all file extensions in a directory

All with only one pipe. Should be much faster as well (sort is slow). Use find instead of ls for recursion or reliability.

Edit: case insensitive

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ls -Xp /path/to/dir | grep -Eo "\.[^/]+$" | uniq
2010-08-12 16:32:54
User: karpoke
Functions: grep ls
Tags: uniq ls grep
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list all file extensions in a directory

If we want files with more than one extension, like .tar.gz, only appear the latest, .gz:

ls -Xp /path/to/dir | grep -Eo "\.[^./]+$" | uniq
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find /path/to/dir -type f -name '*.*' | sed 's@.*/.*\.@.@' | sort | uniq
2010-08-12 15:48:54
User: putnamhill
Functions: find sed sort
Tags: sort uniq find extensions
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list all file extensions in a directory

If your grep doesn't have an -o option, you can use sed instead.

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find /path/to/dir -type f | grep -o '\.[^./]*$' | sort | uniq
2010-08-12 14:32:48
User: dooblem
Functions: find grep sort
Tags: sort uniq find grep extensions
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list all file extensions in a directory

Just a little simplification.

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alias sorth='sort --help|sed -n "/^ *-[^-]/s/^ *\(-[^ ]* -[^ ]*\) *\(.*\)/\1:\2/p"|column -ts":"'
2010-06-10 21:30:31
User: AskApache
Functions: alias column sed
Tags: bash sort sed uniq alias column sorting reverse help askapache sh fields unique buffer
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View advanced Sort options, Quick Reference Help Alias

Once you get into advanced/optimized scripts, functions, or cli usage, you will use the sort command alot. The options are difficult to master/memorize however, and when you use sort commands as much as I do (some examples below), it's useful to have the help available with a simple alias. I love this alias as I never seem to remember all the options for sort, and I use sort like crazy (much better than uniq for example).

# Sorts by file permissions

find . -maxdepth 1 -printf '%.5m %10M %p\n' | sort -k1 -r -g -bS 20%

00761 drwxrw---x ./tmp

00755 drwxr-xr-x .

00701 drwx-----x ./askapache-m

00644 -rw-r--r-- ./.htaccess

# Shows uniq history fast

history 1000 | sed 's/^[0-9 ]*//' | sort -fubdS 50%

exec bash -lxv

export TERM=putty-256color

Taken from my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

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pgrep -cu ioggstream
2010-05-21 10:53:57
User: ioggstream
Tags: sort uniq ps processes
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processes per user counter

use Linux ;)

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tail -n2000 /var/www/domains/*/*/logs/access_log | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | awk '{ if ($1 > 20)print $1,$2}'
2010-05-10 19:08:37
User: allrightname
Functions: awk sort tail uniq
Tags: bash sort awk uniq tail IP apache
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Count number of hits per IP address in last 2000 lines of apache logs and print the IP and hits if hits > 20
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