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brandborg
brandborg

Reputation: 43

sed remove first two octets from ip

I have a file that contains a bunch of ip addresses. I would like for my sed command to remove the first two octets of these. ex. 172.0.0.1 should be changed to XXX.ZZZ.0.1

What I have now remove the lasts octets and replace it with an x!

sed -i 's/\(\([0-9]\{1,3\}\.\)\{3\}\)[0-9]\{1,3\}/\1XXX/g' "${file}"

This is run in a bash scripts that takes the file containing the ip addresses as input param.

I haven't been able to figure out how to do this with sed yet so I'll appreciate any help.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1255

Answers (1)

Wiktor Stribiżew
Wiktor Stribiżew

Reputation: 626747

It seems you may use

sed -i.bak -E 's/\b([0-9]{1,3}\.){2}([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3})\b/XXX.ZZZ.\2/g' "${file}"

The -E (or -r on other OSes) enables the POSIX ERE syntax that allows using fewer escapes in the pattern (no need to escape grouping ( and ) symbols and the limiting/range quantifier {n,m}).

Details

  • \b - word boundary
  • ([0-9]{1,3}\.){2} - two occurences of (Group 1) one to three digits and a dot
  • ([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}) - (Group 2) one to three digits, a . and again 1 to 3 digits
  • \b - word boundary

The whole match is replaced with Group 2 value (\2). The -i.bak will make the replacements in file, and an original copy with a .bak extension will be generated.

See the online demo.

Upvotes: 2

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