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Old 11-16-2012
[Solved] Help to remove a line from a file

Hi,

I just upgraded one my server to latest version RHEL, I have many users who will do SSH from another server. I wanted to update all of the users home directory and remove the security key. For example.
/home/XYZ/.ssh/known_hosts and remove this hostsname.
Please see below and advise. Thanks.


Code:
 
#!/bin/ksh -e
XYZ='ls -1 /home'  ## need to list each of the home directory
for USERS in /$XYZ/.ssh/known_hosts ' ## each users home directory.
do
sed 's/txus03/g'   ##  remove the line txus03, replace with nothing
done

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Old 11-16-2012
Code:
find /home -name 'known_hosts' -exec sed -i -e 's/txus03//g' {} \;

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Old 11-16-2012
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Originally Posted by in2nix4life
Code:
find /home -name 'known_hosts' -exec sed -i -e 's/txus03//g' {} \;

wow, you make it so simple, I was trying to do all kinds of crazy things. Thank you so much.
 
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