quote:"...if perl is the magic we brew here, then bash is the cauldron we brew it in")
Two articles:
How I learned to stop worrying and love the command line by Chip Turner, part 1 (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/004feb05/features/bash/)
How I learned to stop worrying and love the command line by Chip Turner, part 2 (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/005mar05/features/perl/)
I hope you'll enjoy it as I did.
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: Perl One-Liner of the Month: The Adventure of the Spicy Blonde(http://www.gacetadelinux.com/es/lg/issue96/okopnik.html). There are also newer 'adventures' at the original LG's site (http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/1090) (NOTE: see also this story... http://linuxgazette.net/issue89/okopnik.html to round all up)
cat /var/log/httpd/access_log | perl -l -a -n -e 'print $F[6]' | sort +| uniq -c | sort -n | tail -10