cidr2ip

Small and simple program for converting a CIDR into a netmask
git clone https://noxz.tech/git/cidr2ip.git
cidr2ip

commit: 47ba61f0855b6104d7ab504ac0dbc92740e3cbab
parent: f85980a40cc0d39138e0e363f5430c7e339e2bf5
author: z0noxz <chris@noxz.tech>
date:   Tue, 7 Aug 2018 07:45:44 +0200
generalize ip output
Mcidr2ip38++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/cidr2ip b/cidr2ip
@@ -17,38 +17,40 @@ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 '
 
-cidr2ip() {
+do_cidr2ip() {
 
+    # variable declaration
     cidr=$1
     cidr_invert=$((32-cidr))
     mask=$((4294967295 >> cidr_invert << cidr_invert))
-    base=256
     result=""
+    base=256
+    i=0
 
+    # base convert decimal mask to base-256
     while [ "$mask" -ne 0 ]; do
-        result=$(printf '%3s%s' $((mask % base)) "$result")
+        result=$(printf '%-4s%s' $((mask % base)) "$result")
         mask=$((mask / base))
     done
 
-    oct1=${result%?????????}
-    oct2=${result%??????}
-    oct3=${result%???}
-    oct4=${result#?????????}
-
-    oct2=${oct2#???}
-    oct3=${oct3#??????}
+    # output as an ip
+    for item in $result; do
+        printf '%d' "$item"
+        i=$((i+1))
+        if [ "$i" -lt 4 ]; then
+            printf '.'
+        else
+            printf '\n'
+        fi
+    done
 
-    printf '%d.%d.%d.%d\n'\
-        "$oct1"\
-        "$oct2"\
-        "$oct3"\
-        "$oct4"
+    # success
+    return 0
 }
 
-# check if input is a CIDR
+# check if input is a CIDR, then process it
 if [ "$1" -eq "$1" ] 2> /dev/null && [ "$1" -le 32 ] && [ "$1" -gt 0 ]; then
-    cidr2ip "$1"
-    exit 0
+    do_cidr2ip "$1" && exit 0
 fi
 
 # if all fails print usage