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Linux languages/tools specific for log parsing

Is there such a thing? Maybe like Microsoft's LogParser?

I know there's sed/awk, but I'm curious if there are any specific tools or even programming languages.

PS: I'm not sure this belongs here or on SF.

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Grep. And really, for text-processing utilities, perl is unmatched.

Adam Batkin  2009-07-30 17:30:54
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Maybe just related but awstats parses all apache logs in Linux to make its statistics.

slipbull  2009-07-30 17:31:20
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For text parsing, the shell is generally all you need.

sed/awk/grep/tr/more/less/find/sort/etc are a very powerful suite of tools that will probably do what you want.

samoz  2009-07-30 17:33:11

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