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NAME

       asql - Provide an SQL interface to Apache logfiles.

SYNOPSIS

	 asql [options]

	 General Options:

	  --help       Show brief help intstructions.
	  --manual     Show more complete help.
	  --version    Show the version of the software.

	 Scripting Options:

	  --load       Load the named file, or glob.
	  --execute    Execute a single query then exit.

	 Options:

	  --file       Rather than running as a shell read commands from a named file.
	  --quiet      Don't show the banner at startup.

DESCRIPTION

	 asql provides a simple console interface to allow a user to
	query the contents of an Apache logfile via an SQL interface.

	 The shell features include:

       Persistent alias definitions.
       Command line completion
       Command history
       Simple scriptability

INTRODUCTION

	 The asql shell will create a temporary SQLite database based upon
	any number of Apache logfiles.	This temporary database may then
	be interactively queried using common SQL syntax.

	 To get started you should load your logfiles into the database:

	  load /var/log/apache2/acces*

	 (The tool will automatically decompress files which have been
	compressed with gzip or bzip2.)

	 Once you've loaded at least one file you may run queries, for
	example:

	 SELECT source,SUM(size) AS Number FROM logs GROUP BY source ORDER BY Number DESC, ip

	 This example shows all the clients connecting to your webserver
	and the size of files/requests that they have downloaded in total.

	 As you can see we've selected two columns "source" and "SUM(size)".
	To see which other columns are available you may execute the "show"
	command.

	 Because parsing the Apache logfile(s) specified might be quite
	slow there is the option of dumping the temporary SQLite database
	to a known filename with the 'save' command.  The analog to the
	save command is the 'restore' command, which will read in an
	existing SQLite database and allow future queries to be executed
	against it.

FILES

	When the shell starts up it will read and intepret the initialisation
	file of ~/.asqlrc if it exists.  Any commands present in that file
	will be executed prior to the launch of the interactive session.

	All aliases will be read and written to the file ~/.asql.aliases.

	All interactive history will be written to the file ~/.asql.

AUTHOR

	Steve
	--
	http://www.steve.org.uk/

LICENSE

       Copyright (c) 2007,2008,2009,2010 by Steve Kemp.  All rights reserved.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  The LICENSE file contains the
       full text of the license.

AUTHOR

	Steve
	--
	http://www.steve.org.uk/

LICENSE

       Copyright (c) 2007-2020 by Steve Kemp.  All rights reserved.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  The LICENSE file contains the
       full text of the license.

perl v5.10.1							    2010-10-04								   ASQL(8)