ssh:authorized-keys:remove
Removes a single authorized key from the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file
$ sed -i '${key-to-remove}' ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
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The command sed -i '${key-to-remove}' ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
is a sed
command used to remove a specific key from the authorized_keys
file located in the ~/.ssh
directory.
Here is the breakdown of each part of the command:
sed
is a stream editor used to perform text transformations on input streams.-i
is an option forsed
that tells it to edit the file in-place, meaning it will modify the file directly instead of printing the modified output to the standard output.${key-to-remove}
is a placeholder that should be replaced with the actual key you want to remove. It represents the pattern you want to match in theauthorized_keys
file.~/.ssh/authorized_keys
is the path to theauthorized_keys
file in the~/.ssh
directory. This is the file that will be edited by thesed
command.
When you run this command, sed
will search for lines in the authorized_keys
file that match the specified key pattern and remove them from the file. The file will be updated with the removal of the key.
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.