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Solution for: https://sadservers.com/scenario/santiago

We have 3 files, each contains word "Alice". To count how many there is lines with word Alice

grep Alice *.txt | wc -l

After that we could find file with only once with:

grep Alice *.txt | cut  -d ":" -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -r

Solution for Saskatoon Command:

awk '{print $1}' access.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -r | head -20

With awk, we pickup first field from the line - that is IP address. Second command - make sort this lines so next one command uniq could easy count (that is -c) and sort -r will set reverse list from highest to lower counts of IPs

Count of IPs from access log

For the task https://sadservers.com/scenario/saint-john there is easy solution by usage of tool called lsof (short for list list open files) where man pages https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lsof.8.html gives details of usage. Take notice here: I use command kill -9, but in case of important tasks like email servers and similar where are data valuable please use kill -15

Solution in one picture: