John  Stokes wrote:

>An acceptable equivalent analog output for these purposes - as the 
>host files do not have to be alphanumerically sorted for this 
>analysis, but could sequential - would be a sequential listing of 
>hosts with added columns for
>
>     date:time:request
>
>and everything else from the raw log non-selected 
>
>In this, the equivalent for the sample above would be outputted as: 
>
>165.107.135.181  26/May/1999:18:38:35   /CMG-LC-1.gif 
>165.107.135.181  26/May/1999:18:38:35   /CMG-LC-2.gif 
>165.107.135.181  26/May/1999:18:38:35   /JS-PCMG-MG.html 
>165.107.135.181  26/May/1999:18:38:36   /CMG-LC-3.gif
>
>which would still give the desired sequential "e-trail" of each 
>host's requests, albeit with repetition of the host URL.

Analog is fast and accurate because it is designed to do a single 
job, and to do it well. If you simply want to sort your log file by 
host name, and output 3 columns, you could write a 3 line batch 
file to do it (grep logfile for date/time range, discard unwanted 
columns, sort). Adding this functionality to Analog would simply 
cause bloat, because Analog would have to remember things that it 
currently doesn't have to, and it wouldn't be any faster than using 
a standalone utility to do the job, because there isn't any overlap 
with what Analog is already doing.

Aengus
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