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Portable shell expansion of IP ranges into host lists.
overview
Use prips.sh when a scanner needs a flat host list and you want the portable shell form rather than the compiled prips binary.
Feed ip-address-range as a start-end pair or CIDR; thin with -i, format with -f, or cap the first slice with -n before a full /16 expand.
It enumerates hosts only. Compiled prips adds CIDR collapse and exclude lists; mapcidr handles CIDR set ops; naabu or masscan scan the list next.
use cases
Convert a start-and-end pair or a CIDR into every address inside so a port scanner receives a flat host list it can read.
Use -n to print only the first N addresses, or -i to keep every Nth, and probe a representative slice before committing to a full sweep.
Set -f to dec or hex to write each address as a single integer for scripts or tools that expect a numeric form rather than dotted notation.
Use the shell form in stripped-down or containerized environments where shipping the compiled prips is inconvenient, keeping the same expansion behavior.
reference
| Name | Type | Flag | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ip-address-range | STRING | · | The range to expand, as a start and end pair (198.51.100.0 198.51.100.255) or a CIDR (198.51.100.0/24). |
| increment | STRING | -i | Print every Nth address to thin out a dense range. |
| address-format | STRING | -f | Format addresses as hex, dec, or dot. |
| number-of-addresses | STRING | -n | Cap the output to a set number of addresses from the start (the end must not be set). |
Showing key inputs. prips-sh exposes 4 inputs in total.
example
# expand a CIDR block into every address, one IP per lineprips.sh 198.51.100.0/24 > hosts.txt198.51.100.0198.51.100.1198.51.100.2198.51.100.3198.51.100.4198.51.100.5198.51.100.6198.51.100.7… (256 addresses for 198.51.100.0/24)guidance
Use prips.sh to expand an IP range or CIDR into a host list when you want the shell form. Follow with a port scanner. Prefer compiled prips for CIDR-collapse (-c) or exclude (-l). Prefer mapcidr for CIDR set operations.
Compiled original with the same expansion job, plus CIDR-collapse (-c) and exclude (-l).
Aggregates and manipulates CIDR ranges. Use for set operations, not plain host expansion.
Scans the expanded host list for open ports. Natural next stage after prips.sh.
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