The following is a mock-up of a Nginx web server access log. There are a few...

The following is a mock-up of a Nginx web server access log. There are a few entries that might indicate someone is searching for an attack vector. Write a command that will do all of the wollowing;

Read the lines from a file
Use a single regular expression to find all lines where;

Someone tried to access a file starting with a period (example ".htaccess")
OR
Someone attempted to open one of; "php.ini" or "wp.conf"
OR
Someone tried to retrieve a parent directory (example ".." somewhere in the URL)
Output a list of IP addresses without duplicates

access.log

10.10.38.12 - - [25/Aug/2018:00:13:00] "GET https://picard.zone/index.html (Links to an external site.) HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/.05"
12.10.38.12 - - [25/Aug/2018:00:14:18] "GET https://picard.zone/catalog.html (Links to an external site.)?id=5 200  Mozilla/5.0"
64.34.88.11 - - [25/Aug/2018:00:15:20] "GET https://picard.zone/catalog.html (Links to an external site.)?id=30 200  Mozilla/5.0"
51.85.91.44 - - [25/Aug/2018:00:16:33] "GET https://picard.zone/ (Links to an external site.)specials/coupon.php 500  Mozilla/5.0"
1.1.1.1 - - [25/Aug/2018:00:16:40] "GET https://picard.zone/ (Links to an external site.)specials/.htaccess 500  Mozilla/5.0"
1.1.1.1 - - [25/Aug/2018:00:16:44] "GET https://picard.zone/ (Links to an external site.)specials/.settings 500  Mozilla/5.0"
192.168.1.100 - - [25/Aug/2018:00:16:50] "GET https://picard.zone/ (Links to an external site.)specials/wp.conf 500  Mozilla/5.0"
192.168.1.100 - - [25/Aug/2018:00:16:55] "GET https://picard.zone/ (Links to an external site.)specials/../settings.py 500  Mozilla/5.0"
4.2.2.2 - - [25/Aug/2018:00:16:58] "GET https://picard.zone/ (Links to an external site.)specials/php.ini 500  Mozilla/5.0"
11.22.33.44 - - [25/Aug/2018:00:17:42] "GET https://picard.zone/ (Links to an external site.)finish.php 200  Mozilla/5.0"
12.34.56.87 - - [25/Aug/2018:00:18:01] "GET https://picard.zone/ (Links to an external site.)settings.html 200  Mozilla/5.0"
12.34.56.87 - - [25/Aug/2018:00:19:12] "GET https://picard.zone/catalog.html (Links to an external site.)?id=5 200  Mozilla/5.0"
12.34.56.87 - - [25/Aug/2018:00:20:11] "GET https://picard.zone/ (Links to an external site.)privacy.py 200  Mozilla/5.0"

10.10.38.12 - - [25/Aug/2018:00:13:38] "GET https://picard.zone/index.html (Links to an external site.) HTTP/1.1 404 Mozilla/.05"

HINT: The lines you are interested in are in bold; lines 5 to 9.
HINT: In your terminal, create a new file called 'access.log' and copy-paste the above lines into it
HINT: You will likely need to use; cut, uniq and grep in your command

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