Commands tagged log (39)

  • Log your internet download speed

    This will log your internet download speed. You can run gnuplot -persist <(echo "plot 'bps' with lines") to get a graph of it.


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    echo $(date +%s) > start-time; URL=http://www.google.com; while true; do echo $(curl -L --w %{speed_download} -o/dev/null -s $URL) >> bps; sleep 10; done &
    matthewbauer · 2009-09-19 21:26:06 13
  • Get all possible problems from any log files

    Using the grep command, retrieve all lines from any log files in /var/log/ that have one of the problem states


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    grep -2 -iIr "err\|warn\|fail\|crit" /var/log/*
    miketheman · 2009-06-17 19:41:04 10
  • 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. Show Sample Output


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    grep -i "$(date +%b\ %d\ %H)" syslog
    rubenmoran · 2010-05-23 16:18:15 9
  • Grep log between range of minutes

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


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    grep -i "$(date +%b" "%d )13:4[0-5]" syslog
    rubenmoran · 2010-05-23 16:30:46 6
  • useful tail on /var/log to avoid old logs or/and gzipped files

    with discard wilcards in bash you can "tail" newer logs files to see what happen, any error, info, warn... Show Sample Output


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    tail -f *[!.1][!.gz]
    piscue · 2009-03-06 16:24:44 8
  • Follow the most recently updated log files

    This command finds the 5 (-n5) most frequently updated logs in /var/log, and then does a multifile tail follow of those log files. Alternately, you can do this to follow a specific list of log files: sudo tail -n0 -f /var/log/{messages,secure,cron,cups/error_log} Show Sample Output


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    ls -drt /var/log/* | tail -n5 | xargs sudo tail -n0 -f
    kanaka · 2009-07-22 14:44:41 22
  • gets all files committed to svn by a particular user since a particular date

    just change the date following the -r flag, and/or the user name in the user== conditional statement, and substitute yms_web with the name of your module


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    svn log -v -r{2009-05-21}:HEAD | awk '/^r[0-9]+ / {user=$3} /yms_web/ {if (user=="george") {print $2}}' | sort | uniq
    jemptymethod · 2009-06-05 14:07:28 11
  • Analyse compressed Apache access logs for the most commonly requested pages


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    zcat access_log.*.gz | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 20
    tkb · 2009-12-11 09:36:30 4
  • 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. Show Sample Output


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    alias sshv='ssh -vvv -o LogLevel=DEBUG3'
    AskApache · 2010-10-30 11:23:52 4
  • commit message generator - whatthecommit.com


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    curl http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt
    nickoe · 2011-12-29 22:35:28 3
  • 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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    (echo -e "HTTP/1.1 200 Ok\n\r"; tail -f /var/log/syslog) | nc -l 1234
    adimania · 2013-02-09 06:15:42 5
  • Tail a log file with long lines truncated

    This truncates any lines longer than 80 characters. Also useful for looking at different parts of the line, e.g. cut -b 50-100 shows columns 50 through 100.


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    tail -f logfile.log | cut -b 1-80
    plasticboy · 2009-03-26 18:41:57 11
  • read squid logs with human-readable timestamp

    Show Sample Output


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    tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log | perl -p -e 's/^([0-9]*)/"[".localtime($1)."]"/e'
    godzillante · 2011-07-06 08:55:27 7
  • show the real times iso of epochs for a given column

    When you have one of those (log)files that only has epoch for time (since no one will ever look at them as a date) this is a way to get the human readable date/time and do further inspection. Mostly perl-fu :-/


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    perl -F' ' -MDate::Format -pale 'substr($_, index($_, $F[1]), length($F[1]), time2str("%C", $F[1]))' file.log
    coffeeaddict_nl · 2009-08-13 13:57:33 4
  • keep a log of the active windows

    This logs the titles of the active windows, thus you can monitor what you have done during which times. (it is not hard to also log the executable name, but then it is gets too long) Show Sample Output


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    while true; do (echo -n $(date +"%F %T"):\ ; xwininfo -id $(xprop -root|grep "ACTIVE_WINDOW("|cut -d\ -f 5) | grep "Window id" | cut -d\" -f 2 ) >> logfile; sleep 60; done
    BeniBela · 2015-09-23 23:00:14 24
  • Less a grep result, going directly to the first match in the first file

    Really useful way to combine less and grep while browsing log files. I can't figure out how to make it into a true oneliner so paste it into a script file called lgrep: Usage: lgrep searchfor file1 [file2 file3] Advanced example (grep for an Exception in logfiles that starts with qc): lgrep Exception $(find . -name "qc*.log") Show Sample Output


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    argv=("$@"); rest=${argv[@]:1}; less -JMN +"/$1" `grep -l $1 $rest`
    lassel · 2009-10-16 17:36:16 3
  • 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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    sudo awk '($9 ~ /404/)' /var/log/httpd/www.domain-access_log | awk '{print $2,$9,$7,$11}' | sort | uniq -c
    ninjasys · 2010-04-09 10:31:50 6
  • See all the commits for which searchstring appear in the git diff


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    git log -p -z | perl -ln0e 'print if /[+-].*searchedstring/'
    takeshin · 2010-06-13 07:41:22 3
  • 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/ Show Sample Output


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    goaccess -f /var/log/apache2/access.log -s -b
    allinurl · 2010-10-25 20:03:18 6
  • 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} Show Sample Output


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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'
    antic · 2010-12-22 17:52:19 5
  • 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. Show Sample Output


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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
    menicosia · 2010-02-24 22:54:34 4
  • 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/ Show Sample Output


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    sed -n '/05\/Dec\/2010/,$ p' access.log | goaccess -s -b
    allinurl · 2010-12-13 17:37:33 3
  • read squid logs with human-readable timestamp

    The same with colors


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    tail -f /var/log/squid/access.loc | ccze -CA
    longdrink · 2011-07-15 14:58:53 5
  • commit message generator - whatthecommit.com

    If you don't have html2text Show Sample Output


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    curl -s 'http://whatthecommit.com/' | grep '<p>' | cut -c4-
    hputman · 2011-11-04 14:37:36 3
  • gets all files committed to svn by a particular user since a particular date

    svn log -v --> takes log of all Filter1 -------- -r {from}{to} --> gives from and to revision Filter2 -------- awk of line 'r'with numbers Assign user=3rd column [ie; username] Filter3 -------- if username = George print details Filter4 -------- Print lines starts with M/U/G/C/A/D [* A Added * D Deleted * U Updated * G Merged * C Conflicted] Filter5 -------- sort all files Filter6 ------- Print only uniq file's name alone. Show Sample Output


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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
    smilyface · 2011-12-05 07:36:44 3
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