Be Your Own Cloud code · PART 5 — GOING FURTHER

Chapter 23 Using AI Without Handing Over Your Life: A Practical Framework

1 block · p. 105 in the paperback

Sanitising Before You Paste

# p. 105

Run Terminal, any Linux or macOS machine

sed -E \
  -e 's/[[:alnum:]._-]+@[[:alnum:].-]+\.[[:alpha:]]+/REDACTED-EMAIL/g' \
  -e 's/([A-Za-z0-9_]+_(KEY|TOKEN|SECRET|PASSWORD))[[:space:]]*=.*/\1=REDACTED/g' \
  -e 's/([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}/REDACTED-IP/g' \
  -e 's/[[:alnum:].-]+\.(com|net|org|io|dev|xyz)\b/REDACTED-DOMAIN/g' \
  yourfile.txt > sanitized.txt

Reproduced exactly from Be Your Own Cloud, Chapter 23. The book explains what each line does and what to do when it doesn't work. About the book

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