Someone asked me to get a count per day breakdown of page loads for a particular page

breakdown page-loads by day

$ grep "GET /foo/bar.html" access_log | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d: -f1 | uniq -c
    281 [27/Jan/2013
    288 [28/Jan/2013
     40 [29/Jan/2013
     38 [30/Jan/2013
     20 [31/Jan/2013

$ grep "POST /foo/doBar.html" access_log | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d: -f1 | uniq -c
    160 [27/Jan/2013
    150 [28/Jan/2013
     14 [29/Jan/2013
     17 [30/Jan/2013
      5 [31/Jan/2013