Re: quickie UNIX command


Subject: Re: quickie UNIX command
From: cdowns (cdowns@skillsoft.com)
Date: Thu May 17 2001 - 12:53:01 MDT


hehehehe was not implying that at all, was just an example.

-D

Gawain Reifsnyder wrote:

> At 1:17 PM -0400 on 5/17/01, cdowns wrote:
>
> >the -v option remove the string specified and creates a new file
> >without those strings.
> >i think this is what you are tring to do.
> >example:
> >
> >evil hacker wants his ipaddress out of a log file so :
> >cat /var/log/messages | grep -v "123.123.123.123" >>
> >/var/log/messages.new ; mv /var/log/messages.new /var/log/messages
> >
> >thats it and hes is gone from that log.
>
> So, what are you trying to imply.... ;-)
>
> If I ever become an evil hacker, I'll try and keep that in mind. :-)
>
> Gawain

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