If the log has a lot of repeated lines in its original state then running uniq twice, once up front to reduce what needs to be sorted, might be quicker?
uniq log_file | sort| uniq | wc -l - Pad. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
If the log has a lot of repeated lines in its original state then running uniq twice, once up front to reduce what needs to be sorted, might be quicker?
uniq log_file | sort| uniq | wc -l - Pad. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list