that gives you a total only. How did yuo group by date? you don't grep each date, do you? :) > you can do with grep, sort, uniq, sed, for loops, cut, and bc. For example: > > cat access* | grep XXX | cut -d" " -f1 | sort -u | grep -c . _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users