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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with regexp for IP-Adress Pattern Post 302198478 by desertchannel on Friday 23rd of May 2008 03:55:11 AM
Old 05-23-2008
Problem with regexp for IP-Adress Pattern

Hi all Unix Gurus!

Since hours (even days :-)) I'm trying to find the correct pattern to search for IP addesses in text files.
The pattern to find a IP address itself is not too difficult:
'(([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|2[0-5]{2})\.){3,}([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|2[0-5]{2})'

BUT, of course the above pattern is also matching lines like
v.55.25.1.7v
1.3.6.1.4.1.897.4.6.1 = dce
394983|12.50.1.0.0|
--> which are not really IP addresses

The big question is now to avoid the matching of above lines. I thought the best is to NOT ALLOW A DOT [^.] BEFORE AND AFTER MY PATTERN:
'[^.](([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|2[0-5]{2})\.){3,}([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|2[0-5]{2})[^.]'

BUT THIS IS SIMPLY NOT WORKING Smilie! It is still showing above example lines

I'm using nawk and egrep on Solaris 9.

Many, many thanks in advance for any hint on my problem.
 

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ZGREP(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep, zegrep, zfgrep -- print lines matching a pattern in gzip-compressed files SYNOPSIS
zgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [files ...] zegrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...] zfgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...] DESCRIPTION
zgrep runs grep(1) on files or stdin, if no files argument is given, after decompressing them with zcat(1). The grep-flags and pattern arguments are passed on to grep(1). If an -e flag is found in the grep-flags, zgrep will not look for a pattern argument. zegrep calls egrep(1), while zfgrep calls fgrep(1). EXIT STATUS
In case of missing arguments or missing pattern, 1 will be returned, otherwise 0. SEE ALSO
egrep(1), fgrep(1), grep(1), gzip(1), zcat(1) AUTHORS
Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org> BSD
December 28, 2003 BSD
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