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Print the IP addresses in a given range.
overview
prips takes an IP range or a CIDR block and prints every address inside it, one per line. Many scanners and probers want a flat list of hosts rather than range notation, and prips is the small utility that bridges that gap. Give it 198.51.100.0/24 or a start-and-end pair and you get the full set of addresses ready to pipe forward.
It does more than a naive expansion. An increment lets you sample every Nth address, a format flag prints addresses as hex, decimal, or dotted notation, and an exclude option drops a sub-range you do not want to touch. It can also collapse a range back into CIDR notation when you need the compact form.
On Trickest it is a Network node that takes a range or CIDR plus formatting options and writes a file and a folder of results. Put it at the front of a scanning workflow so a single range expands into the host list that a port scanner or prober consumes.
source gitlab.com/prips/prips
use cases
Turn 10.0.0.0/24 into every address inside it so a port scanner or prober receives a flat host list instead of a range it cannot read.
Drop a sub-range from the output so production gateways or out-of-scope hosts never reach the scanning stage.
Set an increment to print every Nth address and probe a representative slice of a big block before committing to a full sweep.
Use -c when you need the compact CIDR form of a start-and-end pair instead of the expanded host list.
reference
| Name | Type | Flag | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| subnet-or-cidr | STRING | · | IP range or CIDR to expand (e.g. 192.168.0.0 192.168.0.255 or 192.168.0.1/24). |
| increment | STRING | -i | Print every Nth address to sample a large range. |
| range-to-cidr | BOOLEAN | -c | Print the range in CIDR notation instead of expanding it. |
| address-format | STRING | -f | Format addresses as hex, dec, or dot. |
| exclude-range-or-cidr | STRING | -l | Exclude a sub-range from the output. |
Showing key inputs. prips exposes 5 inputs in total.
example
# expand a documentation /24, skip a reserved slice, dotted outputprips -f dot -l 198.51.100.0/28 198.51.100.0/24198.51.100.16198.51.100.17198.51.100.18198.51.100.19198.51.100.20198.51.100.21198.51.100.22198.51.100.23guidance
Use prips to turn an IP range or CIDR block into a flat list of addresses for a scanner. It expands ranges, it does not scan them, so follow it with a port scanner. For mapping and merging CIDRs rather than expanding them, use mapcidr.
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faq
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Facts on this page come from the live Trickest tool library.