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Originally Posted by Addison View Post
rootsh grep -A 13 lock_code /dev/mtd1 | tail -1
Just do you understand each part...

rootsh is telling the system to run the following as the root user (i.e. full control)
grep is a command that looks for expressions and prints them (literally: g/re/p ...get.. regular expression.. and print)
-A 13 is a flag telling grep to match something and also print the next 13 lines after whatever matches
lock_code is literally the phrase (the expression) we're looking for
/dev/mtd1 is the filename we're going to search through (in this case, a filehandle for Memory Technology Device subsystem number one in Linux)
| is a pipe that takes the output from the commands on the left and feeds it as input to the commands on the right
tail is a command that prints the last few lines of input
-1 is a flag telling the tail command to just print one line (the last line only)

I figured it might help to understand what it's doing to help get the command right.
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