[CentOS] Working with PEM content

Wed Sep 9 15:49:00 UTC 2015
Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net>

cat ${CERT} |sed '/^-----BEGIN DH PARAMETERS-----$/,/^-----END DH 
PARAMETERS-----$/d' > ${TMPFILE}

(one line) seems to work every time as long as it is well formed.

On 09/09/2015 05:12 AM, Alice Wonder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I need to script some management of text files with PEM content, are
> there already some tools that exist that do this safely?
>
> e.g.
>
> somecert.pem that might contain
>
> -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
> blah blah
> -----END CERTIFICATE-----
> -----BEGIN DH PARAMETERS-----
> more blah
> -----END DH PARAMETERS-----
>
> What I would like is a utility that can read that file, remove the DH
> parameters, write new file, validate new file is valid PEM contents, and
> give exit status 0 on success.
>
> Could be done with standard scripting methods but I'm guessing a perl or
> python tool already exists that won't have me hitting myself when I make
> a stupid scripting mistake.
>
> Google and Bing lately though seem to be getting harder and harder for
> me to use to find that kind of stuff.
>
> Suggestions?
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