#!/bin/bash # snippet from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10768160/ip-address-converter ip2dec () { local a b c d ip=$@ IFS=. read -r a b c d <<< "$ip" printf '%d\n' "$((a * 256 ** 3 + b * 256 ** 2 + c * 256 + d))" } error_exit() { echo "Error: $1 is not a valid IPv4 address range" exit 1 } # Only run this if there is a hypen present in $1 if [[ "$1" =~ "-" ]]; then # This only works with real bash (<<<) - split IP addresses into array with # hyphen as delimiter readarray -d - -t strarr <<< $1 ipaddrcheck --is-ipv4-single ${strarr[0]} if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then error_exit $1 fi ipaddrcheck --is-ipv4-single ${strarr[1]} if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then error_exit $1 fi start=$(ip2dec ${strarr[0]}) stop=$(ip2dec ${strarr[1]}) if [ $start -ge $stop ]; then error_exit $1 fi exit 0 fi error_exit $1