snippet chanio Learning the power of working from the LINUX command line, combining multi-purpose Bash commands with Perl. Explained by one of the best RedHat perl programmers.(note: I apreciate all the following wise comments, but read the first paragraph of the first article, where he explains that he is going to do some <i>unreadable code, inscrutable code, and disposable code</i> :)<br> quote:<i><b>"...if perl is the magic we brew here, then bash is the cauldron we brew it in"</b></i>)<p> Two articles:<p> <a href="http://www.redhat.com/magazine/004feb05/features/bash/">How I learned to stop worrying and love the command line by Chip Turner, part 1 (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/004feb05/features/bash/)</a><br> <a href="http://www.redhat.com/magazine/005mar05/features/perl/">How I learned to stop worrying and love the command line by Chip Turner, part 2 (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/005mar05/features/perl/)</a><p> I hope you'll enjoy it as I did.<p> There are also other articles that might be used as incentive for further reading about oneliners. One is a nice story writen with the Humphrey Bogart films' fashion but about a perl case. Read this Ben Okopnik (a oneliner expert) story: <a href="http://www.gacetadelinux.com/es/lg/issue96/okopnik.html">Perl One-Liner of the Month: The Adventure of the Spicy Blonde(http://www.gacetadelinux.com/es/lg/issue96/okopnik.html)</a>. There are also newer 'adventures' at the original LG's site <a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/1090">(http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/1090)</a> (NOTE: see also this story... [http://linuxgazette.net/issue89/okopnik.html] to round all up) <CODE> cat /var/log/httpd/access_log | perl -l -a -n -e 'print $F[6]' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -10 </CODE>