Script to extract response codes from Nginx access log

This is a simple bash script that extracts response codes from an Nginx access log for a given day.

Usage

Before running the script, make sure to set the log_file variable to the path of your Nginx access log file.

To run the script:

./extract_response_codes.sh

Description

The script performs the following steps:

1. Checks if the specified log file exists.
2. Extracts the access log entries for the current date into a new file named with the current date.
3. Extracts the response codes from the new access log file and sorts them by frequency.
4. Displays the sorted response codes.
5. Deletes the new access log file.

Dependencies

• Nginx
• Bash