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Hey man, how did you know ??

My patented uniques metric: cat access.log | awk -F " " '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq | wc -l

Do you know about cut? You can replace awk here.

cut -d ' ' -f 1

Along the lines of lincolnq's comment: |sort |uniq can be shrunk to |sort -u