Filter Apache logs to exclude js, css and images

August 7th, 2013

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Quite often I find myself having to filter Apache logs to exclude JS, CSS and images. I use a combination of cat and egrep to achieve this:

grep '11.22.33.44' access_log | egrep -v "(.gif|.jpg|.png|.swf|.ico|.txt|.xml|.css|.js|.rss)"