I have an input file with IPv4 addresses:

94.228.16.0 - 94.228.25.255
94.241.136.0/24
94.241.136.0 - 94.241.136.255
94.29.128.0/17
94.29.128.0 - 94.29.191.0
94.29.192.0 - 94.29.255.0
94.74.181.0/24
94.74.181.0 - 94.74.181.31
94.74.181.128 - 94.74.181.255

How I can convert the address ranges to netmasks? The result should be:

94.228.16.0/21
94.241.136.0/24
94.241.136.0/24
94.29.128.0/17
94.29.128.0/19
94.29.192.0/19
94.74.181.0/24
94.74.181.0/27
94.74.181.128/25

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2 Answers

First you will need to install a package to do the conversion

sudo apt install ipcalc

Now you can do it with this little script (please note that it doesn't work if you quote the variable):

$ while read line; do if [[ $line = *-* ]]; then (ipcalc $line | sed '2!d'); else echo $line; fi; done < file
94.228.16.0/21
94.241.136.0/24
94.241.136.0/24
94.29.128.0/17
94.29.128.0/19
94.29.192.0/19
94.74.181.0/24
94.74.181.0/27
94.74.181.128/25

or more readably

while read line; do if [[ $line = *-* ]]; then (ipcalc $line | sed '2!d') else echo $line fi
done < file

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Perhaps not surprisingly, there is a CPAN perl module Net::CIDR for this.

So for example:

$ perl -MNet::CIDR=range2cidr -lne 'print for range2cidr $_' yourfile
94.228.16.0/21
94.228.24.0/23
94.241.136.0/24
94.241.136.0/24
94.29.128.0/17
94.29.191.0/32
94.29.128.0/19
94.29.160.0/20
94.29.176.0/21
94.29.184.0/22
94.29.188.0/23
94.29.190.0/24
94.29.255.0/32
94.29.192.0/19
94.29.224.0/20
94.29.240.0/21
94.29.248.0/22
94.29.252.0/23
94.29.254.0/24
94.74.181.0/24
94.74.181.0/27
94.74.181.128/25

The module is available on Ubuntu by installing the libnet-cidr-perl package.

NB I have not validated your input or the results.

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