Payal Rathod wrote: > Many times when I am not in office my boss wants to > allow or disable access to a particular IP. He is not > familar with vi or any other CLI editor In Linux and I > am afraid he may mess the file.
A basic shell script can do this easily. Something like this bash script: [[ $1 == "add" ]] && echo $2 >> /path/to/acl_file [[ $1 == "del" ]] && grep -v "$2" /path/to/acl_file > acl_file exit 0 Have your boss run the script like this: script_name (add|del) ip_address Note that this script is just an example - it's very primitive, and should not be used in a production environment. You should add checks to make sure that the required parameters are given, and that the value given for the IP address is valid. Adam
