You don't need to pipe the log to grep with cat since grep will take a file input as a second parameter.
grep
cat
grep "$i" /var/log/secure | ...
Thanks for the great write up.
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You don't need to pipe the log to
grepwithcatsince grep will take a file input as a second parameter.grep "$i" /var/log/secure | ...Thanks for the great write up.