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Linux backup script written in bash for tar
This is my first attempt at scripting with bash. I am running Ubuntu server, so I don't get to use all the gui back ups out there. Besides, tar works fine for personal use. Please let me know of any ...
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Counting unique visitors in access log
I'm aware I am probably reinventing the wheel somewhat here, but I am trying to teach myself simple bash coding by completing simple tasks such as parsing files.
To that end I am looking to learn ...
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Return the first number found greater than the provided input number (13 digits)
This script converts the numbers to be at least 13 characters long (for UNIX_MS strings). For use with timestamps, I'm having issues with it being very slow. I wanted an alternative to grepping for ...
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Loop through all virtualhost log files and run goaccess on each file
So I have multiple websites running under apache2 virtualhost - and I wanted to use GoAccess to process the access.log for each site.
The directory structure is ...
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Changing cuts to sed for parsing dates from apache log (common log file)
Would switching my cuts below to SED improve performance? I am trying to get a per date count of requests for the last two weeks from a server log. The script runs, but slowly (comes in around 14 ...
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Bash log monitoring
I've made a Bash script to monitor some server log files for certain data and my method probably isn't the most efficient.
One section specifically bugs me is that I have to write a newline to the ...