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Hi All,
I'm hoping one of you helpful lot could come up with a way I can do the below. I've been trying to think how is best but have struggled to come up with a way.

I have a list of IP addresses in the below format

Code:

1.1.1.1
102.1.2.3
102.102.1.10
102.102.102.1

I need to compare this data to some other data which is in the below form

Code:

001.001.001.001
102.001.002.003
102.102.001.010
102.102.102.001

As you can see i need to ensure each octet of the IP address is 3 digits in length, if it isnt then pad them out using zero's.

I honestly have no idea how to do it so any help you could provide would be really apprecaited.

Thanks in advance.

Try:

Code:

awk -F. '{printf "%03d.%03d.%03d.%03d\n",$1,$2,$3,$4}' file

or

Code:

awk '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) $i=sprintf("%03d",$i)}1' FS=. OFS=.  file

Depending on what else you want to do along with the conversion it might be good to do it in shell. Using the typeset-abilities of the Korn shell:

Code:

typeset -RZ3 b1=""
typeset -RZ3 b2=""
typeset -RZ3 b3=""
typeset -RZ3 b4=""

while IFS='.' read b1 b2 b3 b4 ; do
     print - "$b1.$b2.$b3.$b4"
done <<-EOF
1.2.3.4
12.13.14.15
123.234.1.15
EOF

-R right-justifies the variables content, -Z fills with zeroes (instead of blanks) and 3 fixes the length to 3 digits. i.e "1" becomes "001" therefore. Every value assigned to a variable defined that way will automatically converted to this format.

The loop is just there to showcase how to split the input into 4 variables, do the conversion and put the parts together again without any external tool.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

You should confirm that the source of the data with leading zeros is actually decimal and not octal.

This worked - Thanks