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Monitor Nginx Requests with awk on Debian VPS

Category: Bash

Use awk—a text processor—in a Bash script on a Debian VPS—script:

#!/bin/bash\ntail -n 100 /var/log/nginx/access.log | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c > req.log

On Linode run:

./req.sh

—expect IP counts Tracks hosting traffic