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Using sed to format a phone number

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Formatting an unformated “phone” number using sed.

There may be a different and easier way to do this, but the main thing to learn here is the ^, $, and [[:digit:]] options.

^ refers to the first part of a line
& which is our searched for pattern
$ refers to an end part of the line
[[:digit:]] searches for, you guessed it. Digits!

The following command reads the incoming 10 digit number form echo and does the following.

the ^ tells it that the pattern needs to match at the beginning of the line
[[:digit:]] repeated tells it to search for three consecutive digits
(&) tells it to put brackets around the & which is our searched for pattern in the first part.
We then pipe that to another sed command which
searches for 4 consecutive digits
the $ tells it that it needs to be at the end of the line.

echo "1234567890" | sed -e 's/^[[:digit:]][[:digit:]][[:digit:]]/(&) /g' | sed -e 's/[[:digit:]][[:digit:]][[:digit:]][[:digit:]]$/-&/g'

Resulting output is

(123) 456-7890

The following link was helpful while searching what the ^ and $ options do.

https://www.computerhope.com/unix/used.htm

Create LUKS Encrypted Thumb Drive

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Find the thumb drive with lsblk, dmesg, or sudo fdisk -l. In the following examples we are using /dev/sdc1, replace as needed.

sudo cryptsetup --verbose --verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sdc1
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc1 encrypted_usb
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/encrypted_usb

Now we can mount the drive. We are mounting it to /mnt change if needed.

sudo mount /dev/mapper/encrypted_usb /mnt

Or go ahead and close the channel and remove the drive

sudo cryptsetup luksClose /dev/mapper/encrypted_usb

Command Explanation

sudo cryptsetup --verbose --verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sdc1

Wipe /dev/sdc1 and set the password when prompted for it.

sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc1 encrypted_usb

Open up a secure channel to the drive, and decrypt it so we can access it

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/encrypted_usb

Using the channel we created in the previous command, we can now format the drive.

sudo cryptsetup luksClose /dev/mapper/encrypted_usb

We can now close the channel for the drive and remove it.