From: pent 5971 <pent5971@xxxxxxxxx> > I can scroll the log squid log archives with tail command but > sometimes i want to get some information from it from its coloumns. > like getting the IP addresses from the logs and take it to an other > file as list. awk -F\| ' { print $1 } ' squid.access.log > ips.lst You can also add '| sort | uniq -c | sort -n' to get the number of queries for each IP, sorted... JD