incrediBILL - 12:50 am on Dec 13, 2011 (gmt 0)

Perhaps: grep "GET /attacked_page.php" ?

You're right, that's safer!

I just hammered out that line on my way out the door, forgive me ;)

Do you ref to spiritualseo problem, or are you generally speaking?

I use that approach any time I need a quick list of IPs out of access_log

In this case, he has an immediate need to stop a group hitting a certain page, works like a charm. If they were crawling all over the site, wouldn't work so well.