How to “grep -v” private/broadcast IPv4 addresses?

Question

time nmap -n -iR 0 -sL | cut -d " " -f 5 | egrep -v "^10.*|^172.[16\-32].*|^192.168.*|^[224\-255].*" > RANDOM-IPS.txt

so the important part is:

egrep -v "^10.*|^172.[16\-32].*|^192.168.*|^[224\-255].*"

Q: Is this a good regexp? /So I will generate all the 2^32 IPv4 addresses, and "grep -v" the private/broadcast ranges./ Or are there any better ways to generate the usable IPv4 addresses on the internet?

Answer 1

It is generally a bit toilsome regex to write if you type it in a single command. Better than this, you can make use of grep's -f option :

 -f FILE, --file=FILE
      Obtain  patterns  from  FILE,  one  per  line.   The  empty file
      contains zero patterns, and therefore matches nothing.   (-f  is
      specified by POSIX.)

So create a file, where on each line you'll have a regex to match a particular IP family/range. And then, use the -f option in conjunction with -v.