bash-redactor

A rudimentary log scrubber. Pass in a list of gzipped log files, or the name of a directory, and it:

• copies the files to a temp working directory
• retains the originals' metadata (timestamps, owner, etc) on the copies
• redacts the specified fields
• makes a note of the redacted fields in an audit log

Getting Started/Demo

I've provided some sample logs so you can test this code out. To get started:

1. Clone the master branch of this repo
2. From your local repo folder, run: ./mksamples.bash
3. Test out using the script with a source directory with this command: sudo ./redactor.bash -d ziplogs
4. Test out using the script with a list of files with this command: sudo ./redactor.bash -f "a.log.gz b.log.gz"

Prerequisites

This is optimized for Linux, but will run on OS X. (The master-sedbuilder branch will have problems with maintaining the copied files' timestamps because I haven't gotten around to getting OS X to touch them correctly.)

This is a native bash script. All you need is bash. And love. Bash and love are all you need. And this paddle ball set.

Installing

Installation is simple - just git clone https://github.com/ingernet/bash-redactor.git into your projects directory.

Authors

• Inger Klekacz - ingernet