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I am writing a quick script that will parse over my Apache access log and print out the most recent file accesses. The gotcha comes in with the fact that I want it to only print out the most recent file accessed from each unique IP, and I want the output sorted by date.

Here is my code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use Date::Manip;

use vars qw(%ipHash);

while(<DATA>)
{
    /    ^((\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3})    # grab the IP address into $1
        \s\-\s\-\s\[
        (\d\d\/\w{3}\/\d\d(\d\d\:){3}\d\d)    # grab the date into $3
        \s\-\d{4}\]\s"\w{1,4}\s
        ([\/|\w|\.|_]+)        # grab the file path into $5
    /x 
        and $ipHash{&UnixDate($3,"%s")} = [$1, $3, $5];
}

print join "\n", 
    map 
        {$ipHash{$_}[0] . " => " . $ipHash{$_}[1] . "\t" . $ipHash{$_}
+[2]} 
    sort keys %ipHash;

__DATA__
209.36.83.252 - - [17/Oct/2002:05:53:17 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%%35%63
+../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 400 303
209.36.83.252 - - [17/Oct/2002:05:53:17 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%%35c..
+/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 400 303
209.36.83.252 - - [17/Oct/2002:05:53:17 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%25%35%
+63../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 313
209.36.83.252 - - [17/Oct/2002:05:53:17 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%252f..
+/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 313
68.9.44.75 - - [17/Oct/2002:06:50:34 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin HTTP/1.1"
+ 301 322
68.9.44.75 - - [17/Oct/2002:06:50:34 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin/ HTTP/1.1
+" 200 898
68.9.44.75 - - [17/Oct/2002:06:50:36 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin/left.php?
+lang=en-iso-8859-1&convcharset=iso-8859-1&server=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 1024
129.22.39.158 - - [17/Oct/2002:18:05:10 -0400] "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1" 20
+0 0
160.79.211.121 - - [17/Oct/2002:19:51:31 -0400] "GET /default.ida?NNNN
+NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
+NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
+NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
+NNNNNNNNNNNNN%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u
+6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u007
+8%u0000%u00=a  HTTP/1.0" 400 303
129.22.82.8 - - [17/Oct/2002:20:37:10 -0400] "GET /index.php HTTP/1.1"
+ 200 25430
129.22.82.8 - - [17/Oct/2002:20:37:10 -0400] "GET /index.php?=PHPE9568
+F35-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 HTTP/1.1" 200 4440
129.22.82.8 - - [17/Oct/2002:20:37:10 -0400] "GET /index.php?=PHPE9568
+F34-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 HTTP/1.1" 200 2962
129.22.82.8 - - [17/Oct/2002:21:25:44 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 2673
129.22.82.8 - - [17/Oct/2002:21:25:44 -0400] "GET /manual/images/apach
+e_pb.gif HTTP/1.1" 404 302
[download]

That code produces the following output:

209.36.83.252 => 17/Oct/2002:05:53:17   /scripts/..
68.9.44.75 => 17/Oct/2002:06:50:34      /phpMyAdmin/
68.9.44.75 => 17/Oct/2002:06:50:36      /phpMyAdmin/left.php
160.79.211.121 => 17/Oct/2002:19:51:31  /default.ida
129.22.82.8 => 17/Oct/2002:20:37:10     /index.php
129.22.82.8 => 17/Oct/2002:21:25:44     /manual/images/apache_pb.gif
[download]

Now, ideally, I would not want the IP's repeated. Rather, I just want to see the last file accessed by that IP. So, the output would look like:

209.36.83.252 => 17/Oct/2002:05:53:17   /scripts/..
68.9.44.75 => 17/Oct/2002:06:50:34      /phpMyAdmin/
160.79.211.121 => 17/Oct/2002:19:51:31  /default.ida
129.22.82.8 => 17/Oct/2002:21:25:44     /manual/images/apache_pb.gif
[download]

But, to maintain my sorting by date, I key the hash by the Unix timestamp and not the IP. Would I need to set up a dualing hash thing so I can sort by date but keep only one entry for each IP address? I just can't seem to wrap my head around this and wondered if any monks had some nifty ideas.

Thanks,
enoch

P.S. You gotta love those 'default.ida?NNNNNNN' entries.

In reply to Parsing Apache Log to Get Most Recent File Access by enoch

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