I like awk , and often use it for quick little log aggregation things(often on the command line, if what I am interested in is a one-off).But awk has a small problem: it likes printing large numbers inexponential notation.

The minor problem with this is that I find exponential notation fornumbers harder to read than straight decimal notation. '3.18254e+10'is just harder to understand casually than 318254405

As a result of the MSN search spider going crazy , Iam actually paying some attention to our web server logs for achange. This led to me looking up which URLs are responsible for thelargest amounts of bandwidth used.

To my surprise, the six largest bandwidth sources were some CD-ROMimages in ISO format that we happen to have lying around, the oldestone dating back to 2002. In the last week alone , there were eightrequests totaling 3.5 gigabytes of transfers. Who

We mirror the Fedora Core 4 updates area, and we use yum to installthings from it, and Red Hat recently released an extremely unsuitable(for us) update to xorg-x11 (as recounted in MoreFC4Problems ). So weneeded to take those buggy RPMs out of circulation and keep them out.

Fortunately this turns out to be pretty easy, because not all RPMs ina directory have to be in the repository metadata that yum uses. This let us continue to pull a full mirror from