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Some examples of uses for Web log Filter:
| • | You want to look at errors on your website; so you write a script to take a massive log file and create separate output log files for each different error code. |
| • | You want to prepare a web log file for a user on your website, so you write a script to extract all references to his set of pages. |
| • | You want to examine all outside referers to your website, so you write a script to discard all log lines with blank referrers or with referrers coming from within your own domain. |
| • | You want to look at search engine patterns, so you write a script to extract only log lines coming from google. |
| • | You want to combine a series of input log files while you filter them. |
| • | You want to anonymize the host IP info in a log file (replace each unique IP with a random value). |
| • | You want to correct changes in a log file. |
| • | You want to split up a log file into separate files based on content (i.e. save each line to a file based on referrer domain). |
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