Re: [SLUG] script to parse and compare an IP address

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2006 - 16:42:21 EST


On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Sick Twist wrote:

> From: Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com>
> Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 14:49:51 -0500 (EST)
>
>> On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Sick Twist wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to write a script that parses an unknown IP address from a
>>> page of HTML, compares the IP address to a file and overwrites the file if
>>> the saved IP address is different.
>>
>> sed -n '/ [1-9][0-9]*\.[1-9][0-9]*\.[1-9][0-9]*\.[1-9][0-9]* /s/^.*
>> \([1-9][0-9]*\.[1-9][0-9]*\.[1-9][0-9]*\.[1-9][0-9]*\) .*$/\1/p' <
>> file.html > address
>
> I don't need to create HTML, just pull an IP address out of it. Basically, I
> have a string with an IP address in the middle and I need to write a script
> that strips out just the IP address so that I can save it to a file. I forgot
> about sed but will definitely read up on it.

Yeah, that command should do it. It's basically

sed -n /expr/s/\(expr\)/\1/p

but expr is kinda messy. If I had a hankerin' to, I'd find a way to stick
expr in a variable. That would clean it up a lot.

-- 
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