Here are some cool python one liners.
- Parse apache log using python: print 5th field
python -c "import csv,sys;f=csv.reader(sys.stdin, delimiter=' '); print '\n'.join([r[5] for r in f])
- Generate frequency histogram from a text files of terms
cat file.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
- print 2nd column of a tab separated file
awk -F"\t" '{print $2}'
- perl search replace from files
perl -i -p -e 's/old/new/g'