On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Michael Yep wrote:
Hello Is there a way to have xargs or perhaps another tool take a list from stdin and put it somewhere besides the last argument? Say if i want to get all the offending IPs (bad logins) for a given day then i want to take that list and see if its in a file called blacklist
lastb -ai |fgrep "Jul 18" |awk '{print $10 }'|sort|uniq | xargs grep -i {} blacklist
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