I needed to build a list of all unique hits that had been made on a website in Apache.

Here's what I came up with using awk and sed.  This should match any HTTP 2xx or 3xx requests and strip of any GET request parameters.

awk '\$9 \~/\^(2|3)/ {print …

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This took me a while to work out why this would not work. When using the -i option with sed you need to specify a backup extension to be used (at least on my 10.5 mac you do!)

e.g.

sed -i '' -e 's/something/something else/g' -e …

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