I found the histogram technique to be really helpful. Slight mod - I tend to sort reverse at the end of the pipeline (sort -rn); then |head is often more usefu

I found the histogram technique to be really helpful. Slight mod - I tend to sort reverse at the end of the pipeline (sort -rn); then |head is often more useful. It's also good to have histograms by hour or day. I've hacked up scripts to do this but I should really make something better!