HowTo: Merge Apache / Lighttpd / Nginx Server Log Files

To merge Apache / Lighttpd / Nginx server log files, you can use the cat command in Linux/Unix. The cat command allows you to concatenate and display the contents of multiple files.

Here’s how you can use the cat command to merge log files:

cat file1.log file2.log > merged_logs.log

In the above command, file1.log and file2.log are the names of the log files you want to merge, and merged_logs.log is the name of the file that will contain the merged logs. The > symbol is used to redirect the output of the cat command to the merged_logs.log file.

If you have multiple log files, you can specify all of them in the cat command:

cat file1.log file2.log file3.log > merged_logs.log

After running the command, you will have a new file called merged_logs.log that contains the contents of all the log files you specified.

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