Been trying to get this working for a while and not really quite getting it.
Basically, I have a file with an ip address that changes more or less on a daily basis. The file only contains one ip address and this is the one I'm trying to replace with my crazy grepping to find my current internal ip.
I have this
#!/bin/sh
newip=$(ifconfig | grep 0xfff | grep -Eo '([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}' | grep -v 255)
echo $newip
sed 's/*\.*\.*\.*/"$newip"/g' log.txt > logmod.txt
but it's not matching and replacing.
I'm not familiar with sed and I am a beginner with regexps too.
Any help would be awesome!
Thanks :)
If your version of sed
supports extended regular expressions (the -r
option), you could do something like this (which is similar to what you have in your grep
statement). Also note $newip
is outside the single quotes to allow the shell to replace it.
sed -r 's/(\b[0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}\b'/$newip/
BTW this solution still matches strings that do not represent IP addresses. See this site under IP Adresses for more complex solutions.
IP=207.0.0.2; [[ x${IP}x =~ x"(2([0-4][0-9])|2(5[0-5])|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[0-9])\.(2([0-4][0-9])|2(5[0-5])|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[0-9])\.(2([0-4][0-9])|2(5[0-5])|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[0-9])\.(2([0-4][0-9])|2(5[0-5])|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[0-9])"x ]] && echo ok || echo bad
this validates only four decimal octet representation
so this one will fail 016.067.006.200
(even valid but not four decimal octet representation, but octal)
016.067.006.200 =~ 14.55.6.200