Commands by mogsie (2)

  • Colorizes an access log

    Puts a splash of color in your access logs. IP addresses are gray, 200 and 304 are green, all 4xx errors are red. Works well with e.g. "colorize access_log | less -R" if you want to see your colors while paging. Use as inspiration for other things you might be tailing, like syslog or vmstat Usage: tail -f access.log | colorize


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    function colorize() { c="--line-buffered --color=yes"; GREP_COLORS="mt=01;34" egrep $c '(^| 200 | 304 )' "${@}" | GREP_COLORS="mt=02;31" egrep $c '(^|"(GET|POST) .*[^0-9] 4[0-1][0-9] )' | GREP_COLORS="ms=02;37" egrep $c '(^|^[0-9\.]+) ';}
    mogsie · 2013-08-14 21:05:34 0
  • Always run apt-get as root

    apt-get must be run as root, and it is useless to run it as your own user. So just run it as root. Saves you the "sudo !!" every time you're adding a package.


    -4
    alias apt-get='sudo apt-get'
    mogsie · 2009-02-10 22:45:49 0

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