With tax season coming up I have been asked to set up a certain centralized tax service for a company. I won't mention the company nor the well known tax program involved as this post isn't about flaming a product but just to show you how cool commands in Linux can be used to solve, what would originally seem like, complicated problems.
Here's the scenario. The software runs on JBoss (a java app server) and it has log output. During client testing with fake social security numbers...