search source IPs and occurrences from Apache access_log

grep_snippets.sh

# us awk to show the unique source-ips from access logs
awk '{ print $1 }' /var/log/*access*log | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20

# to use that on several compressed files: 
gzip -dc /var/log/*access*.gz | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr

# to show only the most-occuring addresses: 
gzip -dc /var/log/*access*.gz | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20