[Gllug] Apache log files

[John Hearns]

2009/4/7 william pink <will.pink at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I have the rather horrible task of splitting up lots (40Gb's worth) of
> Apache log files by date, the last time I did this I found the line number I
> then tailed the file and outputted it into a new file which was a long
> arduous task. I imagine this can be done in a few minutes with some
> Regex/Sed/AwkBash trickery but I wouldn't know where to start can anyone
> give me any pointers to get started?

I would think of Perl for this task - that's what the language is good at.

However, I do sometimes have a problem of a certian application
producing huge output files.
I deal with this using the 'csplit' utility.
Man csplit, and think hard about the regexp PATTERN which will match
your date ranges.
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