Please Help remove some data from previous post

I have posted some data on the forum which needs to be deletd ASAP.

The post here in question are

How to do in this in shell script?

How to modify this script?
How to resolve this error?

Error in code in linux?

Please remove all the parts from post :

i-d4411185 Rishi_Win_Okta Unknown Unknown
i-7ca28d52 FTP_Test01 Unknown Unknown

Its just a snippet of the long data.
please remove all that

---------- Post updated at 04:16 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:02 PM ----------

We can use dummy data

PROMPT> ec2-describe-instances

RESERVATION	r-1a2b3c4d	111122223333	my-security-group
INSTANCE	i-1a2b3c4d	ami-1a2b3c4d	ec2-203-0-113-25.compute-1.amazonaws.com	ip-10-251-50-12.ec2.internal	running	my-key-pair	0		t1.micro	YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+0000	us-west-2a	aki-1a2b3c4d			monitoring-disabled	184.73.10.99	10.254.170.223			ebs					paravirtual	xen	ABCDE1234567890123	sg-1a2b3c4d	default	false	
BLOCKDEVICE     /dev/sda1       vol-1a2b3c4d    YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSZ	true	
RESERVATION     r-2a2b3c4d      111122223333    another-security-group
INSTANCE	i-2a2b3c4d	ami-2a2b3c4d	ec2-203-0-113-25.compute-1.amazonaws.com	ip-10-251-50-12.ec2.internal	running	my-key-pair	0		t1.micro	YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+0000	us-west-2c			windows	monitoring-disabled	50.112.203.9	10.244.168.218			ebs					hvm	xen	ABCDE1234567890123	sg-2a2b3c4d	default	false
BLOCKDEVICE     /dev/sda1        vol-2a2b3c4d    YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSZ	true

In addition to what we see here, I have had 2 private messages in the last 2 hours begging me to delete data from the thread listed here. There probably is some company private data here, but stripping everything out the way he did it in message #5 in the thread How to do this in shell script? will make these threads unreadable. Except for the thread noted above, all of these threads are closed (either due to age or because he consistently started multiple threads for a single problem).

There is a lot of data here that has been duplicated several times and appears not only in Palak Sharma's posts but in posts from lots of people who tried to help.

Any suggestions?

I am considering send a reply to the latest private message that says:

Instead of asking the forum moderators to spend hours constructing sample data that will make sense to people who want to read these threads to learn how to write code, please provide us with an explicit list of changes to make to each post in each thread you identified in your post to the moderators such that the private data you posted can be replaced by sanitized data.

For example, use data like:

PROMPT> ec2-describe-instances

RESERVATION	r-1a2b3c4d	111122223333	my-security-group
INSTANCE	i-1a2b3c4d	ami-1a2b3c4d	ec2-203-0-113-25.compute-1.amazonaws.com	ip-10-251-50-12.ec2.internal	running	my-key-pair	0		t1.micro	YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+0000	us-west-2a	aki-1a2b3c4d			monitoring-disabled	184.73.10.99	10.254.170.223			ebs					paravirtual	xen	ABCDE1234567890123	sg-1a2b3c4d	default	false	
BLOCKDEVICE     /dev/sda1       vol-1a2b3c4d    YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSZ	true	
RESERVATION     r-2a2b3c4d      111122223333    another-security-group
INSTANCE	i-2a2b3c4d	ami-2a2b3c4d	ec2-203-0-113-25.compute-1.amazonaws.com	ip-10-251-50-12.ec2.internal	running	my-key-pair	0		t1.micro	YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+0000	us-west-2c			windows	monitoring-disabled	50.112.203.9	10.244.168.218			ebs					hvm	xen	ABCDE1234567890123	sg-2a2b3c4d	default	false
BLOCKDEVICE     /dev/sda1        vol-2a2b3c4d    YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSZ	true

which gives sample data that contains nothing private.

Use this data to construct sample input files and sample output files that correspond to the data you want changed, but still gives people reading the thread data that they can feed into the code that has been provided and will match the sample replacement text you provide.

Removing everything (like you did in message #5 in the thread How to do this in shell script?) is not appropriate because anyone trying to figure out what the thread was discussing, and showing the hours and hours of work done for you by the volunteers in these forums would be totally confused.

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Would this be appropriate?

People should pay more attention before they post stuff.

Do as you see fit with the posts, thanks Don. I have banned the user already.

Would it be OK to just delete these four threads?

Yes.
.

The four threads in question no longer exist.

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