on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:03:09PM -0400, Jeff Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm doing a lot of work with a Sharp Zaurus which requires several
> re-flashes  of the box daily - With my initrd.bin, ssh keys on the Z
> regenerate with each flash. As a consequence, my host .ssh/known_hosts
> is frequently outdated and I must edit it to remove references to
> z,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
> 
> I'd like to gen up a script to nuke references in .ssh/known_hosts to the 
> Zaurus. It's trivial to edit known_hosts, but I'd like to eliminate this 
> step.
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction? 

    sed -e '/<pattern>/d' < ~/.ssh/known_hosts > ~/.ssh/known_hosts.tmp &&
        mv ~/.ssh/known_hosts.tmp ~/.ssh/known_hosts

If you have known good state of known_hosts that you want to restore,
just copy it in from a template at startup or login.

Peace.

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