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How to purge passwords from files
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| #to find the offenders | |
| find -name "*\.php" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -Rin "password" > results.txt | |
| # to replace it with garbage | |
| find . -name "*.php" -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i -e 's/FINDME/REPLACEWITHME/g' | |
| # you can change '*.php' to the extension you want. | |
| # remove the command from .bash_history | |
| > ~/.bash_history | |
| history -c |
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