filter included files

filter included files

[Oliver Večerník]

Hi,

I like to include files from the network to document their status at the
time of publication e.g.:

  #+INCLUDE: "/<host>:/etc/iptables/iptables.rules" example

But sometimes I'd like to do some more filtering (sed, whatever), to
remove passwords or other sensible information from the output.  Is
their a 'best practice' to achieve this goal?

-- 
Regards,
Oliver

Re: filter included files

[Oliver Večerník]

> I like to include files from the network to document their status at the
> time of publication e.g.:
>
>   #+INCLUDE: "/<host>:/etc/iptables/iptables.rules" example
>
> But sometimes I'd like to do some more filtering (sed, whatever), to
> remove passwords or other sensible information from the output.  Is
> their a 'best practice' to achieve this goal?

To answer my own question, I still don't know if this is 'best
practice', but this worked for me quite well:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh :exports results :results output
ssh <host> cat /etc/iptables/iptables.rules | sed 's/pattern/string/'
#+END_SRC

-- 
Regards,
Oliver

Re: filter included files

[Oliver Večerník]

> To answer my own question, I still don't know if this is 'best
> practice', but this worked for me quite well:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC sh :exports results :results output
> ssh <host> cat /etc/iptables/iptables.rules | sed 's/pattern/string/'
> #+END_SRC

oops, useless use of cat:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh :exports results :results output
ssh <host> sed 's/pattern/string/' /etc/iptables/iptables.rules
#+END_SRC