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(echo -e "HTTP/1.1 200 Ok\n\r"; tail -f /var/log/syslog) | nc -l 1234
2013-02-09 06:15:42
User: adimania
Functions: echo tail
Tags: tail log http nc tail -f
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Tail a log-file over the network

This one is tried and tested for Ubuntu 12.04. Works great for tailing any file over http.

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svnll(){svn log "$@"|( read; while true; do read h||break; read; m=""; while read l; do echo "$l" | grep -q '^[-]\+$'&&break; [ -z "$m" ] && m=$l; done; echo "$h % $m" | sed 's#\(.*\) | \(.*\) | \([-0-9 :]\{16\}\).* % \(.*\)#\1 \2 (\3) \4#'; done)}
2012-03-25 20:39:05
User: vhotspur
Functions: echo grep read sed
Tags: log subversion
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Short log format of Subversion history

Emulate (more or less) Git equivalent of

git log --format='tformat:%h %an (%cr) %s'
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tail -f production.log | perl -ne 'if (/^Completed.in.(\d+)/){$d = int($1/1000);print "\n";$f{$d}++;for $t (sort(keys(%f))){print $t."s: ".$f{$t}."\n"}}'
2012-02-23 14:37:33
User: theist
Functions: perl tail
Tags: perl log rails ruby filter tail -f
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filter rails log to count requests sliced in seconds

Commandline perl filter for, using a production.log from a rails app, display on realtime the count of requests grouped by "seconds to complete" (gross round, but fair enough for an oneliner) :)

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curl http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt
2011-12-29 22:35:28
User: nickoe
Tags: version control svn git cvs log funny whatthecommit
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commit message generator - whatthecommit.com
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svn log -v -r{2009-11-1}:HEAD | awk '/^r[0-9]+ / {user=$3} /./{if (user=="george") {print}}' | grep -E "^ M|^ G|^ A|^ D|^ C|^ U" | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq
2011-12-05 07:36:44
User: smilyface
Functions: awk grep sort
Tags: svn awk log
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gets all files committed to svn by a particular user since a particular date

svn log -v --> takes log of all

Filter1

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-r {from}{to} --> gives from and to revision

Filter2

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awk of line 'r'with numbers

Assign user=3rd column [ie; username]

Filter3

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if username = George

print details

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Print lines starts with M/U/G/C/A/D

[* A Added * D Deleted * U Updated * G Merged * C Conflicted]

Filter5

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sort all files

Filter6

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Print only uniq file's name alone.

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curl -s 'http://whatthecommit.com/' | grep '<p>' | cut -c4-
2011-11-04 14:37:36
User: hputman
Functions: cut grep
Tags: version control svn git cvs log funny whatthecommit
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commit message generator - whatthecommit.com

If you don't have html2text

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find . -type f | xargs grep -n "Old Text" | tee filesChanged.txt | sed 's/:.*$//' | xargs sed -i 's/Old Text/New Text/g
2011-09-06 10:28:36
User: moogmusic
Functions: find grep sed tee xargs
Tags: log replace
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Find/Replace in a bunch of files and keep a log of the changes

This is a more concise answer to http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/2011/09/episode-158-old-switcheroo.html in my opinion.

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tail -f /var/log/squid/access.loc | ccze -CA
2011-07-15 14:58:53
User: longdrink
Functions: tail
Tags: perl log date time human timestamp squid human-readable
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read squid logs with human-readable timestamp

The same with colors

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tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log | perl -p -e 's/^([0-9]*)/"[".localtime($1)."]"/e'
2011-07-06 08:55:27
User: godzillante
Functions: perl tail
Tags: perl log date time human timestamp squid human-readable
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read squid logs with human-readable timestamp
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while true; do /bin/ping -q -c1 -w3 8.8.8.8 2>&1 > /dev/null || echo "8.8.8.8 ping failed at $(date +%d/%m/%y) $(date +%H:%M:%S)" >> /var/log/ping.log; sleep 10; done &
2011-05-12 01:51:07
User: Arkey
Functions: echo sleep
Tags: log ping internet connection
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Check a internet connetion is up. If it isn't write a log.

This command are using by me for checking connection with Internet.

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lynx -dump -nolist http://whatthecommit.com/|sed -n 2p
2011-04-17 17:45:18
User: houghi
Functions: sed
Tags: version control svn git cvs log funny whatthecommit
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commit message generator - whatthecommit.com

Fetch comical VC commit messages from whatthecommit.com

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curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | html2text | sed '$d'
2011-04-14 16:51:53
User: zbeekman
Functions: sed
Tags: version control svn git cvs log funny whatthecommit
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commit message generator - whatthecommit.com

Requires html2text. Print bad, but often funny commit messages from whatthecommit.com

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svn ci -m "$(curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | sed -n '/<p>/,/<\/p>/p' | sed '$d' | sed 's/<p>//')"
2011-04-14 15:05:14
User: zbeekman
Tags: version control svn log funny prank malicious whatthecommit
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Check in current directory to SVN with commical/terrible commit message. (Please don't actually run this command!)

DO NOT RUN this command! THIS WILL CHECK IN ALL CHANGES IN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY TO SUBVERSION WITH A TERRIBLE COMMIT MESSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T DO IT! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!

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curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | sed -n '/<p>/,/<\/p>/p' | sed '$d' | sed 's/<p>//'
2011-04-14 14:58:11
User: zbeekman
Functions: sed
Tags: version control svn git cvs log funny
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commit message generator - whatthecommit.com

Fetch comical VC commit messages from whatthecommit.com

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svn log -r '{YYYY-MM-DD}:{YYYY-MM-DD}' | sed -n '1p; 2,/^-/d; /USERNAME/,/^-/p' | grep -E -v '^(r[0-9]|---|$)' | sed 's/^/* /g'
2010-12-22 17:52:19
User: antic
Functions: grep sed
Tags: sed log grep date username subversion commit messages
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Get a Bulleted List of SVN Commits By a User for a Specifc Day (Daily Work Log)

* Replace USERNAME with the desired svn username

* Replace the first YYYY-MM-DD with the date you want to get the log (this starts at the midnight event that starts this date)

* Replace the second YYYY-MM-DD with the date after you want to get the log (this will end the log scan on midnight of the previous day)

Example, if I want the log for December 10, 2010, I would put {2010-12-10}:{2010-12-11}

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sed -n '/05\/Dec\/2010/,$ p' access.log | goaccess -s -b
2010-12-13 17:37:33
User: allinurl
Functions: sed
Tags: log apache2 analysis logging
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Analyze Apache Web Log Statistics starting on DATE x

GoAccess is an open source real-time Apache web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly. http://goaccess.prosoftcorp.com/

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alias sshv='ssh -vvv -o LogLevel=DEBUG3'
2010-10-30 11:23:52
User: AskApache
Functions: alias
Tags: ssh bash alias log Encryption debug tty askapache SSH_TTY logging loglevel
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Debug SSH at the Maximum Verbosity Level

When debugging an ssh connection either to optimize your settings ie compression, ciphers, or more commonly for debugging an issue connecting, this alias comes in real handy as it's not easy to remember the '-o LogLevel=DEBUG3' argument, which adds a boost of debugging info not available with -vvv alone.

Especially useful are the FD info, and the setup negotiation to create a cleaner, faster connection.

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goaccess -f /var/log/apache2/access.log -s -b
2010-10-25 20:03:18
User: allinurl
Tags: log apache apache2 logs server analysis
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CLI Visual Apache Web Log Analyzer

GoAccess is an open source real-time Apache web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly. http://goaccess.prosoftcorp.com/

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for file in `cat urls.txt`; do echo -n "$file " >> log.txt; curl --head $file >> log.txt ; done
2010-10-19 02:54:13
User: Glutnix
Functions: echo file
Tags: status log curl HEAD http files list download http_code url
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Get all the HTTP HEAD responses from a list of urls in a file

urls.txt should have a fully qualified url on each line

prefix with

rm log.txt;

to clear the log

change curl command to

curl --head $file | head -1 >> log.txt

to just get the http status

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git log -p -z | perl -ln0e 'print if /[+-].*searchedstring/'
2010-06-13 07:41:22
User: takeshin
Functions: perl
Tags: git perl log search
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See all the commits for which searchstring appear in the git diff
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grep -i "$(date +%b" "%d )13:4[0-5]" syslog
2010-05-23 16:30:46
User: foolano
Functions: grep
Tags: log minutes
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Grep log between range of minutes

Returns logs between HH:M[Mx-My], for example, between 13:40 and 13:45.

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grep -i "$(date +%b\ %d\ %H)" syslog
2010-05-23 16:18:15
User: foolano
Functions: grep
Tags: log date
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Grep syslog today last hour

Uses date to grep de logfile for today and uses it to get the last hour logs. Can be used to get last minute logs or today's logs.

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sudo awk '($9 ~ /404/)' /var/log/httpd/www.domain-access_log | awk '{print $2,$9,$7,$11}' | sort | uniq -c
2010-04-09 10:31:50
User: ninjasys
Functions: awk sort sudo uniq
Tags: log error apache
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Display error pages in report format

This command will return a full list of Error 404 pages in the given access log. The following variables have been given to awk

Hostname ($2), ERROR Code ($9), Missing Item ($7), Referrer ($11)

You can then send this into a file (>> /path/to/file), which you can open with OpenOffice as a CSV

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awk '/^--- Day changed (.*)/ {st=""; for (i=0;i<ar[date];i++) {st=st"*"} print date" "st; date=$7"-"$5"-"$6} /> emergency/ {ar[date]++} END {st=""; for (i=0;i<ar[date];i++) {st=st"*"}; print date" "st}' #engineyard.log
2010-02-24 23:10:03
User: MarcoN
Functions: awk
Tags: log irc irssi histogram
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irssi log histogram

This awk command prints a histogram of the number of times 'emergency' is the first word in a line, per day, in an irssi (IRC client) log file.

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awk '/^--- Day changed (.*)/ {st=""; for (i=0;i<ar[date];i++) {st=st"*"} print date" "st; date=$7"-"$5"-"$6} /> emergency/ {ar[date]++} END {st=""; for (i=0;i<ar[date];i++) {st=st"*"}; print date" "st}' #engineyard.log
2010-02-24 22:54:34
User: menicosia
Functions: awk
Tags: log irc irssi histogram
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irssi log histogram

This awk command prints a histogram of the number of times 'emergency' is the first word in a line, per day, in an irssi (IRC client) log file.

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