Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com https://snipplr.com/ Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:35:46 +0000 https://snipplr.com/view/16533/awk-script-to-count--of-occurences-of-fields-in-a-file <p>Use to quickly list the unique fields in a file AND the number of times the field occurs e.g. Count how times a resource (eg image) has been resulted in a 404 status by examining the IIS logs. eg assuming this is the input file: **input.txt** and the source script below is in **count.awk** 2009-06-26 GET /presources/ebooks/images/step3.gif 404 2009-06-26 GET /images/20090000/20094617.gif 404 2009-06-26 GET /presources/ebooks/images/digital_rarrow.gif 404 2009-06-26 GET /images/19480000/19482901.gif 404 2009-06-26 GET /images/33110000/33111321.gif 404 2009-06-26 GET /presources/ebooks/images/step3.gif 404 2009-06-26 GET /presources/ebooks/images/step1.gif 404 2009-06-26 GET /presources/ebooks/images/step3.gif 404 2009-06-26 GET /images/20090000/20094487.gif 404 2009-06-26 GET /presources/ebooks/images/step1.gif 404 executing awk -f count.awk input.txt will yield 1 /images/33110000/33111321.gif 2 /presources/ebooks/images/step1.gif 3 /presources/ebooks/images/step3.gif 1 /presources/ebooks/images/digital_rarrow.gif 1 /images/20090000/20094487.gif 1 /images/19480000/19482901.gif 1 /images/20090000/20094617.gif</p> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:37:23 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/16533/awk-script-to-count--of-occurences-of-fields-in-a-file