Am 15.07.2014 01:51, schrieb Eliezer Croitoru: > On 07/15/2014 12:45 AM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> It means that your script is not correct[1] and by error tries to load a >> helper module which does not exist. So fix your script. >> >> [1] "cat | grep | awk" constructs are far from being elegant. >> >> Alexander > I think that these are not too bad.. > And you can use xargs instead of a for loop. > > If you have another suggestion you can throw the one-liner here. > > Eliezer The OP's code snipplet: blocks=$(cat $FILE | egrep -v '^;' | awk '{ print $1}') for ipblock in $blocks do $IPTABLES -A Spamhaus -s $ipblock -j DROP done Running without the pipe construct because awk can do that all by itself (reading the source file and inverse greping): while read ipblock do $IPTABLES -A Spamhaus -s $ipblock -j DROP done < <(awk '!/^;/ { print $1 }' $FILE) Alexander _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos