Can get uniq to work as intended

[darkage]

I'd like to know how many people visited a specific part of my website during the month of april so i use this:

cat access_log ¦ grep /Apr/ ¦ grep multimedia 

This works fine.

But i want to filter out duplicates based on IPs, so i can get number of unique visitors.

So i add this:

cat access_log ¦ grep /Apr/ ¦ grep multimedia [b] ¦ uniq -w 15 -i [/b]

But it simply will not give me unique lines based on the first 15 characters.

So whats the problem?

Thanks in advance.

[darkage]

a simple question, but apparently no simple answer :(

[mcavic]

I'm not sure -- it seems to work for me. But if you just want the number of visitors, try it like this:

grep '/Apr/' access_log ¦ grep multimedia ¦ cut -f1 -d ' ' ¦ sort -u ¦ wc -l

[darkage]

Thanks, that worked exactly as intended. Strange that uniq doesnt work...