[Gllug] Re: Bash Data validation libraries

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 04:04:27PM +0000, Richard wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> >A lot of these things can be done fairly simply using the available
> >tools.  For instance, a naive check of IP addresses might be:
> > 
> >
> <snip>
> 
> >^[1-9][0-9]?[0-9]?\.[1-9][0-9]?[0-9]?\.[1-9][0-9]?[0-9]?\.[1-9]\[0-9]?[0-9]?$ ]]; then
> > 
> >
> <snip>
> At the risk of sounding rude, what about the less naive version?

Well of course the less naive version would check that the IP address
components are in the range 0-255, that it's not a multicast or
reserved address, would work with IPv6 addresses, and so on.  Lengthy
regexp ...

Rich.

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