So what day was 9 days ago again?
$ when 9 days ago
2014-07-13
Quite often when working with internet data, you will find yourself wanting to figure out what sort of device users are using to access your content. Luckily, if you’re using HTTP, there is a standard for that: The user-agent header.
Since I’m in exactly that position, I’ve added a new script to my Dotfiles that reads user agents on stdin, parses them, and writes them back out in a given format.
A fairly common set of command line tools (at least for me) is to combine sort and uniq to get a count of unique items in a list of unsorted data. Something like this:
$ find . -type 'f' | rev | cut -d "." -f "1" | rev | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
2649 htm
1458 png
993 cache
612 jpg
135 css
102 zip
99 svg
60 gif
45 js
27 pdf