In my previous article Retrieve CDN log files via swiftly I shown how to download all of the CDN logs.

After downloading all of the CDN logs, you will likely want to parse them. However, the way that Rackspace presently log the CDN is a different log file for each hour, on each day, on each month, and year. So this actually is convenient if you require the logs seperate, but if you want to parse them in something like awstats, piwik, or other log parsers like goaccess, it would help if they are all part of the same file.

Here’s how I achieved it (where /home/adam/cdn is the path of the cdn logs. Don’t worry this will pickup ALL log files inside there, at least the ones that are gz files

find /home/adam/cdn -type f | xargs -i zcat {} > alldomains.cdn.log

I could have probably used -type gz or similar and used select to find everything. It works nicely though. It’s a quickie, but a goodie.