- To master basic and not-so-basic UNIX/Linux shell commands and scripting.
You are to write shell-script that will process an access log file of Apacher web-server and output some information to the console (depends on your variant). Your script should use only standard command line tools like cut, paste, head, tail,cat, tac, wc, join, grep, sort, sed, uniq, awk, expr, et cetera, and should not use other programming languages like C, Perl, Python etc. The file consists of records. Each line has only one record. A record has the following format:
<client host> - - [<timestamp with timezone>] <HTTP-request line (type, URL, version)> <Code of HTTP-response> <Number of sent bytes or '-', if the response is empty> <Referer string ('-' means direct request without referer)> <Client info (browser, application)>
Example of a record:
host-24-225-218-245.patmedia.net - - [01/Oct/2006:06:33:45 -0700] "GET /example/example.atom HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "NetNewsWire/2.0b37 (Mac OS X; Lite; http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/)"
Interpretation of the above record:
- On 01/Oct/2006:06:33:45 -0700 from the host host-24-225-218-245.patmedia.net via HTTP/1.1 protocol was issued a GET request to get the resource at /example/example.atom. Response code from server is 304. Such a response has 0 sent bytes (-). Referrer is empty. Client used NetNewsWire/2.0b37 and client OS was Mac OS X.
Your solution should be stored in file ./solution/top. To run the solution make it executable by chmod +x ./top command. Your solution will typically include 2-7 lines of commmands. A one liner solution is also possible but probably it will look ugly (my subjective point of view).
Your solution will be crossvalidated on sub-chunks of the log.txt file provided above. You can split your log.txt into chunks using split command. Our testing script will run your solution and compare its output with our "correct" outputs by diff command. Thus your solution will be judged.
Best of luck!
- The task was adopted and adapted from http://vseloved.github.io/spos. All credits go to Vsevolod Dyomkin.
- Variants in Russian can be found there