thanks vgersh99.... piping output to shell...how clever!
now, i'm trying to remove certain IPs so I'm using this:
awk '$5 !~ /192.168.1.1/ {print "whois " $5}' pfirewall.log | sh
This works fine. Next, I want to start on row 6. This is where I have a problem:
awk 'NR==6,NR==100000 $5 !~...