Shell Script To Remove All Keys Belonging To Hostname From a ~/.known_hosts File

#!/bin/bash
# A simple shell script to clean (delete)  ~/.known_hosts file hostname entry.
# This is useful when remote server reinstalled or ssh keys are changed!
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# Copyright (c) 2007 nixCraft project <http://cyberciti.biz/fb/>
# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
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host="$1"
 
[[ $# -eq 0 ]] && { echo "Usage: $0 host.name.com"; exit 1;}
 
ips=$(host "$host" | awk -F'address' '{ print $2}' | sed -e 's/^ //g')
ssh-keygen -R "$host"
for i in $ips
do
	ssh-keygen -R "$i"
done