Bash: Simple network ip/mask calculations with bash

Filipe Felisbino — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Here is quick-and-dirty network subnet calculator for bash:

        
        
        
    
#converts an int to a netmask as 24 -> 255.255.255.0
netmask()
{
    local mask=$((0xffffffff << (32 - $1))); shift
    local ip n
    for n in 1 2 3 4; do
        ip=$((mask & 0xff))${ip:+.}$ip
        mask=$((mask >> 8))
    done
    echo $ip
}

#receives a ip/mask parameter and returns the nth ip in that range:
get_nth_ip()
{
    IFS=". /" read -r i1 i2 i3 i4 mask <<< $1
    IFS=" ." read -r m1 m2 m3 m4 <<< $(netmask $mask)
    printf "%d.%d.%d.%d\n" "$((i1 & m1))" "$((i2 & m2))" "$((i3 & m3))" "$(($2 + (i4 & m4)))"
}

To find the 10th ip in a subnet you just need to:

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