[Feature Request] delete defined line in known_hosts file

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:48:25AM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Marc Haber wrote:
> > for a test lab, I'm trying to write a small shell script that will
> > eradicate all information regarding a special host from the
> > known_hosts file. Unfortunately, it is quite non-trivial to find out
> > what ssh doesn't like with a host.
> > 
> > ssh says which line in known_hosts has the offending key, but
> > ssh-keygen -R doesn't take a line number. Am I using an undocumented
> > interface when I simply use sed to delete the appopriate line?
> 
> not at all, the known_hosts is defined to be a file containing one
> key per line.

Thanks for that clarification, I'll use sed -i "${LINE}d" $FILE

Greetings
Marc

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