ipv6calc(8)

🌸 ipv6calc(8) — NAME

okay bestie, gather round 💖 this is ipv6calc, and it's literally the main character of address wrangling: it formats, calculates, shows information about, and filters IPv6/IPv4/MAC addresses. she does it all, no cap. 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ipv6calc [OPTIONS] [<input data>]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, this program formats and calculates IPv6/IPv4/MAC addresses, and honestly? it can do so many more tricky things too 💅 — for example it includes a pipe filter capability. iykyk. 🌈

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

ngl, if you don't hand over any data as command-line arguments, the data gets read from standard input. slay, it's flexible like that. 🫶

⭐ General options

• -d, --debug DEBUGVALUE — sets a debug value (it's bitwise-like, okay?) and you can also set it with the IPV6CALC_DEBUG environment value. double the ways, double the fun ✨
• -v, --version [-v [-v]] — version info, and you can stack it for 2 optional detail levels 📚
• -v, --version -h — explains the feature tokens for you, bestie
• -V, --verbose — be more verbose, spill the tea ☕
• -h, --help, -? — this online help, right here

🌸 External database options (depending on compiled-in suppport)

heads up: these only work if the matching support was compiled in!

• --db-ip2location-disable — IP2Location(BIN) support, disabled 💀
• --db-ip2location-dir DIRECTORY — IP2Location(BIN) database directory, default: /usr/share/IP2Location
• --db-ip2location2-disable — IP2Location(MMDB) support, disabled 💀
• --db-ip2location2-dir DIRECTORY — IP2Location(MMDB) database directory, default: /usr/share/IP2Location
• --db-geoip2-disable — GeoIP(MMDB) support, disabled 💀
• --db-geoip2-dir DIRECTORY — GeoIP(MMDB) database directory, default: /usr/share/GeoIP
• --db-dbip2-disable — db-ip.com(MMDB) support, disabled 💀
• --db-dbip2-dir DIRECTORY — db-ip.com(MMDB) database directory, default: /usr/share/DBIP

💜 Special options

• -q, --quiet — be more quiet 🍓 (this one gets auto-enabled in pipe mode, sneaky)
• -f, --flush — flush each line in pipe mode, keep that data flowing 💧

👑 Usage with new style options

• --in, -I INPUT-TYPE — specify the input type (default: autodetect)
• --out, -O OUTPUT-TYPE — specify the output type (sometimes: autodetect)
• --action, -A ACTION — specify the action (default: format conversion, sometimes: autodetect)
• <format option> ... — specify format options
• <input data> [...] — the input data itself

and within that, the types you can ask about:

• Available input types: [-m] -I|--in -?|-h|--help
• Available output types: [-m] -O|--out -?|-h|--help
• Available action types: [-m] -A|--action -?|-h|--help

🧚 Other usage

• --showinfo, -i [--machine_readable|-m] — show information about the input data 🔍
• --showinfo, -i --show_types — show available types on -m

🎀 Usage with shortcut options

<shortcut option> [<format option> ...] <input data>

for more info and the available format options, hit up: <shortcut option> -?|-h|--help 🫶

and here's the shortcut squad, all of them, no skips:

• -r, --addr2ip6_int — (-O revnibbles.int)
• -r, --addr_to_ip6int — (-O revnibbles.int)
• -a, --addr2ip6_arpa — (-O revnibbles.arpa)
• -a, --addr_to_ip6arpa — (-O revnibbles.arpa)
• -b, --addr_to_bitstring — (-O bitstring)
• --addr2compaddr — (--printcompressed)
• --addr_to_compressed — (--printcompressed)
• --addr2uncompaddr — (--printuncompressed)
• --addr_to_uncompressed — (--printuncompressed)
• --addr_to_base85 — (-I ipv6addr -O base85)
• --base85_to_addr — (-I base85 -O ipv6addr)
• --mac_to_eui64 — (-I mac -O eui64)
• --addr2fulluncompaddr — (--printfulluncompressed)
• --addr_to_fulluncompressed — (--printfulluncompressed)
• --addr2if_inet6 — (-I ipv6addr -O ifinet6)
• --addr_to_ifinet6 — (-I ipv6addr -O ifinet6)
• --if_inet62addr — (-I ifinet6 -O ipv6addr --printcompressed)
• --ifinet6_to_compressed — (-I ifinet6 -O ipv6addr --printcompressed)
• --eui64_to_privacy — (-I iid_token -O iid_token -A genprivacyiid)
• --ipv4_to_6to4addr — (-I ipv4 -O ipv6addr -A conv6to4)

see the inline help or the documentation for more, bestie 📖

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? spill it via GitHub: https://github.com/pbiering/ipv6calc/issues 🐛

Homepage: http://www.deepspace6.net/projects/ipv6calc.html

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

to run this program the standard way, type:

ipv6calc --showinfo -i -m ::1

ipv6calc --showinfo -m 127.0.0.1

ipv6calc --showinfo --show_types

ipv6calc --ipv4_to_6to4addr 127.0.0.1

ipv6calc --addr_to_uncompressed ::1

Usage of filters in pipe mode:

cat <Apache-Logfile> | ipv6calc -E ipv6.db.cc=US,iid-random

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

GPLv2 — iconic, legally iconic. ⭐

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🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de> — the legend herself (well, himself, but the legend energy is unmatched) 👑

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this was ipv6calc(8), brought to you at version 3.4.0 by Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de> — no date on the tin, so i'm not making one up, periodt 💅✨🦋