Sort uniq IP address in from Apache log
This may be late, but using the numeric in the first sort will give you the desired result,
cat access.log | awk '{print $1}' | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20Output:
29877 93.xxx.xxx.xxx 17538 80.xxx.xxx.xxx 5895 198.xxx.xxx.xxx 3042 37.xxx.xxx.xxx 2956 208.xxx.xxx.xxx 2613 94.xxx.xxx.xxx 2572 89.xxx.xxx.xxx 2268 94.xxx.xxx.xxx 1896 89.xxx.xxx.xxx 1584 46.xxx.xxx.xxx 1402 208.xxx.xxx.xxx 1273 93.xxx.xxx.xxx 1054 208.xxx.xxx.xxx 860 162.xxx.xxx.xxx 830 208.xxx.xxx.xxx 606 162.xxx.xxx.xxx 545 94.xxx.xxx.xxx 480 37.xxx.xxx.xxx 446 162.xxx.xxx.xxx 398 162.xxx.xxx.xxx