-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Yep wrote: > 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 > ??? blacklist > > where ??? would be where the stdin goes Using xargs you could use -I{}, e.g. lastb -ai | ... | xargs -I{} grep {} blacklist (You could also replace the pipe to uniq with the -u option to sort.) Another approach that springs to mind is using a small loop in your shell. With bash it could be this: for ip in $(lastb -ai |fgrep "Jul 18" |awk '{print $10 }'|sort -u); do grep $ip blacklist done If you're unsure whether the output may contain spaces, then a while loop may be easier to cope with than changing $IFS. lastb -ai | ... |sort -u | while read ip; do grep "$ip" blacklist done - -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. -- T.S. Eliot -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: When crypto is outlawed bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. iG0EARECAC0FAkS9PeomGGh0dHA6Ly93d3cucG9ib3guY29tL350bXovcGdwL3Rt ei5hc2MACgkQuv+09NZUB1oDSwCfYnYkEMQniKN5n/kpDJ99vE22u04AoPygzgXT wVblbpv6H9OOuYI7Krm3 =F4tz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list