Hiro 714
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#1 works fine, but #2 does not work. would you advise?
1. does work
1. does work
sed -e 's/pinCode=[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/pinCode=#######/g'
sed -e 's/pinCode=\d{6}/pinCode=#######/g'
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This should also work:
»bp
sed -e 's/pinCode=[[:digit:]]\{6\}/pinCode=#######/g'»bp
if this is a syslog/rsyslog log retention you can set it up to be masked from the get go within the syslog/rsyslog process .
try \d+ instead of \d{6}
not sure \d{6} 6 digit works in all versions of sed or perl for that matter.