Here you go... the start or example of one :)

#!/usr/bin/perl
# v0.1 April 18 2001
# dennis@durrow.com
# Read apache log files
# and tell me unique visits per day
# and tell me the most popular page


open(LOG_FILE,"/var/log/httpd/access_log") || die "Can't open";

$totalsize = 0;
$count_not_found = 0;
$count_unique = 0;
$countrtget = 0;
$countrtpost = 0;
$countrtunknown = 0;

$counthttp1 = 0;
$counthttp11 = 0;
$counthttpunknown = 0;
$countsearchengine = 0;

while($line = <LOG_FILE>)
{
    chop($line);
    $count++;

    #break apart into the categories
    ($ip, $dash1, $dash2, $date, $tzoffset, $requesttype, $url, $http_
+type, $status, $size) = split(/ /,$line);

    print "$ip $url\n";

    if($url eq "/robots.txt")
    {
        $countsearchengine++;
    }
    if($count < 2)
    {
        $start_date = $date;
    }

    if($status eq "404")
    {
        $count_not_found++;
    }
    if($requesttype eq "\"GET")
    {
        $countrtget++;
    }
    elsif($requesttype eq "\"POST")
    {
        $countrtpost++;
    }
    else
    {
        $countrtunknown++;
    }
   
    if($http_type eq "HTTP/1.0\"")
    {
        $counthttp1++;
    }
    elsif($http_type eq "HTTP/1.1\"")
    {
        $counthttp11++;
    }
    else
    {
        $counthttpunknown++;
    }

    $totalsize += $size;
     
};



print "\nAccess log Results\n";
print "=====================\n";
print "Log Start: $start_date\n";
print "Log End: $date\n";
print "# of possible web crawlers: $countsearchengine\n";
print "# of unique hits: $count_unique\n";
print "# of get request types: $countrtget\n";
print "# of post request types: $countrtpost\n";
print "# of unknown request types: $countrtunknown\n";
print "# of 404 errors: $count_not_found\n";
print "# of Requests: $count\n";
print "# of bytes transferred: $totalsize\n";
print "# of 1.0 HTTP Request Types: $counthttp1\n";
print "# of 1.1 HTTP Request Types: $counthttp11\n";
print "# of unknown HTTP Request Types: $counthttpunknown\n";
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