Count unique users from a log file for a given time period

Revision: 18478

at September 30, 2009 15:33 by benjay

Initial Code

cat xyz.log | grep "2009-03" | ruby -ne 'puts $1 if $_ =~ /user:\s(\w+)/' | sort -u | wc -l

Initial URL

Initial Description

Sample log line:

[INFO] 2009-03-06 20:47:35 | controller::bla | user: vincentvega | ip: 127.0.0.1

Initial Title

Count unique users from a log file for a given time period

Initial Tags

sort, Bash, ruby

Initial Language

Bash