PRIPS(1)

💖 PRIPS(1) 💖

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for prips, from the General Commands Manual section. she's little, she's mighty, and she prints IP addresses. let's get into it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

prips — print the IP addresses in a given range ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

prips [-c] [-d delim] [-e exclude] [-f format] [-i incr] start end
prips [-c] [-d delim] [-e exclude] [-f format] [-i incr] CIDR-block
prips -h

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so the whole vibe of prips is: you give her an IP range, she gives you every single IP address in that range. that's it. that's the job. periodt 💅

and like, why do you care? because there are tools out there that only know how to deal with one host at a time, and prips is the friend who feeds them the whole guest list one by one. the manpage literally name-drops whois(1) as an example. so you pipe, you loop, you slay 🫶

✨ the options, bestie ✨

here's every flag she takes, no skips, no cuts:

• -c — print the range in CIDR notation. cute and compact.
• -d delim — set the delimiter to the character whose ASCII code is delim, where 0 <= delim <= 255. (yes, it's a number, not the character itself. read it twice, i did too 😭)
• -e <x.x.x,x.x> — exclude ranges from the output.
• -f format — set the format of addresses: hex, dec, or dot.
• -h — show a summary of the options. the little "hi hello what do you need" flag 💖
• -i incr — set the increment to x. skip-ahoy.

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

ngl this part is a nothing-burger, and i love that for her: the prips tool's operation is not influenced by any environment variables. zero. none. she's unbothered 💜

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🎀 FILES 🎀

same energy, bestie: the prips tool's operation is not influenced by any files. she needs nothing from your filesystem. lowkey iconic 🙈

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

this is the fun part, let's actually do stuff:

display all the addresses in a reserved subnet:

prips 192.168.32.0 192.168.32.255

the same thing, but using CIDR notation:

prips 192.168.32.0/24

display only the usable addresses in a class A reserved subnet, using a space instead of a newline as the delimiter:

prips -d 32 10.0.0.1 10.255.255.255

display every fourth address in a weird block:

prips -i 4 192.168.32.7 192.168.33.5

determine the smallest CIDR block containing two addresses:

prips -c 192.168.32.5 192.168.32.11

see how each one's doing a little something different? chef's kiss 👑 that -d 32 one is a space, btw, because 32 is the ASCII code for space. iykyk 🌸

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💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

the prips utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. that's the whole story. if it's zero, we're good; if it's anything bigger, something went sideways 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

ipsc(1), gipsc(1) — go say hi to the cousins 🦋

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🌟 STANDARDS 🌟

No standards were harmed in the writing of the prips tool. (this is a direct quote, i would never lie to you, and honestly? iconic behavior. she said "we're not doing that today" 💅)

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📜 HISTORY 📜

so here's the lore: the prips tool was originally written by Daniel Kelly, and was later adopted by Peter Pentchev. this manual page was originally written by Juan Alvarez for the Debian GNU/Linux system, and was later added to the prips distribution and converted to mdoc format by Peter Pentchev. a whole glow-up arc, we love to see it 💖

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

• Daniel Kelly ⟨dan@vertekcorp.com⟩
• Juan Alvarez ⟨jalvarez@fluidsignal.com⟩
• Peter Pentchev ⟨roam@ringlet.net⟩

the founding mothers... i mean, the founding legends 🫶

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🙈 BUGS 🙈

found a bug? don't be shy, bestie — please report any bugs in the prips tool to its current maintainer, Peter Pentchev. he's the one holding the aux cord now 🎀

also, just so you know where this page comes from: it's the Debian build, dated March 1, 2011. that's the source and the date, and that's your sign-off, mwah 💋✨