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Is there anyone who can help a programming and linux novice?
I am trying to write a shell script that will display and execute the following menu items:
- Display total number of login attempts
- Top 5 most successful number of logins with usernames
- Top 5 unsuccessful number of logins with usernames
- Top 5 most successful login locations
Personally, I'd implement this as a Perl script because the hash type there makes it very easy.
Since it smells like a homework, here's a hint, but not a solution: look up the commands last and lastb. For example, to read the manual page for last, use the command:
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