Parse virsh output - virsh

Is there a way to force virsh to print information in a parseable way? like json?
I want to write a one-liner shell command that gets the IP address of a VM but the way virsh prints it out is not very friendly to scripts:
# virsh domifaddr myvm
Name MAC address Protocol Address
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vnet1 52:54:00:b9:58:64 ipv4 192.168.130.156/24
I'm looking for a way to force it to not print the headers at least so I can get '192.168.130.156' from the output easily
This is the best I could do:
# virsh -q domifaddr myvm | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d/ -f 1
192.168.130.156

One option is to install qemu-guest-agent on the domains you would like to extract IP information from.
From there, you can execute the following command on the host to get a detailed network interface listing in JSON:
ubuntu#host:~$ virsh qemu-agent-command my-guest '{"execute":"guest-network-get-interfaces"}'
{"return":[{"name":"lo","ip-addresses":[{"ip-address-type":"ipv4","ip-address":"127.0.0.1","prefix":8},{"ip-address-type":"ipv6","ip-address":"::1","prefix":128}],"statistics":{"tx-packets":22,"tx-errs":0,"rx-bytes":2816,"rx-dropped":0,"rx-packets":22,"rx-errs":0,"tx-bytes":2816,"tx-dropped":0},"hardware-address":"00:00:00:00:00:00"},{"name":"eth0","ip-addresses":[{"ip-address-type":"ipv4","ip-address":"1.2.3.4","prefix":22},{"ip-address-type":"ipv6","ip-address":"abcd::1234:ee:ab12:e31d","prefix":64}],"statistics":{"tx-packets":11231,"tx-errs":0,"rx-bytes":40717370,"rx-dropped":0,"rx-packets":19744,"rx-errs":0,"tx-bytes":890354,"tx-dropped":0},"hardware-address":"01:02:00:03:04:05"}]}
Your json can be parsed however you'd like from there.

Related

Displaying bash script output to console or receive the output as mail in /var/spool/mail/{user_name}

I am new to scripting and cron jobs and still experimenting to get a sense of how I can use them.
I created a simple script that would tell me my IP at the moment
#!/bin/bash
#Create the container to hold the output of ip a command
ifco=$(ip a | grep 'scope global' | grep -v virbr0 | grep -oP '(?<=inet\s)\d+\.\d+\.\$
#Printing out the curent IP address
echo "My IP address currently is "$ifco
The script does the job and the output is as follows:
My IP address currently is 192.168.135.249
then I type crontab -e and put the following entry:
MAILTO=gui
31 * * * * gui /home/gui/scripts/06/test_ifc.sh > /home/gui/scripts/06/cronoutput.txt 2>&1
Then I checked the content of the file cronoutput.txt and it tells me:
/bin/sh: gui: command not found
Also when I type the mail command I'd expect to have an email with the command output since I've got a MAILTO=gui{my user} but there were no emails.
Please tell me how I can receive an email or display the output of my script on the console
p.s. i typed tty which gave me /dev/pts/0, so I changed my cron entry to be:
31 * * * * gui /home/gui/scripts/06/test_ifc.sh > /dev/pts/0
However, this did not work as well.
Thank you in advance.
I nailed it.
CRON wants the full path to the ip command. So my script should be like:
#!/bin/bash
#Create the container to hold the output of ip a command
ifco=$(/usr/sbin/ip a | grep 'scope global' | grep -v virbr0 | grep -oP '(?<=inet\s)\d+\.\d+\.\$
#Printing out the curent IP address
echo "My IP address currently is "$ifco

Show active interfaces in terminal

I am trying to list network interface that I am currently using. I need to know how to do this in terminal, and in script.
ifconfig | grep $(networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder | grep 'Ethernet, Device' | sed -E "s/.*(en[0-9]).*/\1/")
What am i getting:
enter image description here
What do I want to get:
Only the name of active interface
Use your second command, but put everything after the interface name into a lookahead, so it's not printed as part of the match.
ifconfig | pcregrep -M -o '^[^\t:]+(?=:([^\n]|\n\t)*status: active)'
When I do this, the output is:
en0
awdl0
See What is AWDL (Apple Wireless Direct Link) and how does it work? for what awdl0 is.
Your first command should work if just print the result of the networksetup pipeline, without using ifconfig. This works for me:
networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder | grep 'Wi-Fi, Device' | sed -E "s/.*(en[0-9]).*/\1/"
I have Wi-Fi rather than Ethernet.
You can also use the scutil command to show active interfaces and their IPv4/6 addresses (though it doesn't show the AWDL interfaces):
scutil --nwi

Portable way to resolve host name to IP address

I need to resolve a host name to an IP address in a shell script. The code must work at least in Cygwin, Ubuntu and OpenWrt(busybox).
It can be assumed that each host will have only one IP address.
Example:
input
google.com
output
216.58.209.46
EDIT:
nslookup may seem like a good solution, but its output is quite unpredictable and difficult to filter. Here is the result command on my computer (Cygwin):
>nslookup google.com
Unauthorized answer:
Serwer: UnKnown
Address: fdc9:d7b9:6c62::1
Name: google.com
Addresses: 2a00:1450:401b:800::200e
216.58.209.78
I've no experience with OpenWRT or Busybox but the following one-liner will should work with a base installation of Cygwin or Ubuntu:
ipaddress=$(LC_ALL=C nslookup $host 2>/dev/null | sed -nr '/Name/,+1s|Address(es)?: *||p')
The above works with both the Ubuntu and Windows version of nslookup. However, it only works when the DNS server replies with one IP (v4 or v6) address; if more than one address is returned the first one will be used.
Explanation
LC_ALL=C nslookup sets the LC_ALL environment variable when running the nslookup command so that the command ignores the current system locale and print its output in the command’s default language (English).
The 2>/dev/null avoids having warnings from the Windows version of nslookup about non-authoritative servers being printed.
The sed command looks for the line containing Name and then prints the following line after stripping the phrase Addresses: when there's more than one IP (v4 or 6) address -- or Address: when only one address is returned by the name server.
The -n option means lines aren't printed unless there's a p commandwhile the-r` option means extended regular expressions are used (GNU sed is the default for Cygwin and Ubuntu).
If you want something available out-of-the-box on almost any modern UNIX, use Python:
pylookup() {
python -c 'import socket, sys; print socket.gethostbyname(sys.argv[1])' "$#" 2>/dev/null
}
address=$(pylookup google.com)
With respect to special-purpose tools, dig is far easier to work with than nslookup, and its short mode emits only literal answers -- in this case, IP addresses. To take only the first address, if more than one is found:
# this is a bash-specific idiom
read -r address < <(dig +short google.com | grep -E '^[0-9.]+$')
If you need to work with POSIX sh, or broken versions of bash (such as Git Bash, built with mingw, where process substitution doesn't work), then you might instead use:
address=$(dig +short google.com | grep -E '^[0-9.]+$' | head -n 1)
dig is available for cygwin in the bind-utils package; as bind is most widely used DNS server on UNIX, bind-utils (built from the same codebase) is available for almost all Unix-family operating systems as well.
Here's my variation that steals from earlier answers:
nslookup blueboard 2> /dev/null | awk '/Address/{a=$3}END{print a}'
This depends on nslookup returning matching lines that look like:
Address 1: 192.168.1.100 blueboard
...and only returns the last address.
Caveats: this doesn't handle non-matching hostnames at all.
TL;DR; Option 2 is my preferred choice for IPv4 address. Adjust the regex to get IPv6 and/or awk to get both. There is a slight edit to option 2 suggested use given in EDIT
Well a terribly late answer here, but I think I'll share my solution here, esp. because the accepted answer didn't work for me on openWRT(no python with minimal setup) and the other answer errors out "no address found after comma".
Option 1 (gives the last address from last entry sent by nameserver):
nslookup example.com 2>/dev/null | tail -2 | tail -1 | awk '{print $3}'
Pretty simple and straight forward and doesn't really need an explanation of piped commands.
Although, in my tests this always gave IPv4 address (because IPv4 was always last line, at least in my tests.) However, I read about the unexpected behavior of nslookup. So, I had to find a way to make sure I get IPv4 even if the order was reversed - thanks regex
Option 2 (makes sure you get IPv4):
nslookup example.com 2>/dev/null | sed 's/[^0-9. ]//g' | tail -n 1 | awk -F " " '{print $2}'
Explanation:
nslookup example.com 2>/dev/null - look up given host and ignore STDERR (2>/dev/null)
sed 's/[^0-9. ]//g' - regex to get IPv4 (numbers and dots, read about 's' command here)
tail -n 1 - get last 1 line (alt, tail -1)
awk -F " " '{print $2} - Captures and prints the second part of line using " " as a field separator
EDIT: A slight modification based on a comment to make it actually more generalized:
nslookup example.com 2>/dev/null | printf "%s" "$(sed 's/[^0-9. ]//g')" | tail -n 1 | printf "%s" "$(awk -F " " '{print $1}')"
In the above edit, I'm using printf command substitution to take care of any unwanted trailing newlines.

bash script to perform dig -x

Good day. I was reading another post regarding resolving hostnames to IPs and only using the first IP in the list.
I want to do the opposite and used the following script:
#!/bin/bash
IPLIST="/Users/mymac/Desktop/list2.txt"
for IP in 'cat $IPLIST'; do
domain=$(dig -x $IP +short | head -1)
echo -e "$domain" >> results.csv
done < domainlist.txt
I would like to give the script a list of 1000+ IP addresses collected from a firewall log, and resolve the list of destination IP's to domains. I only want one entry in the response file since I will be adding this to the CSV I exported from the firewall as another "column" in Excel. I could even use multiple responses as semi-colon separated on one line (or /,|,\,* etc). The list2.txt is a standard ascii file. I have tried EOF in Mac, Linux, Windows.
216.58.219.78
206.190.36.45
173.252.120.6
What I am getting now:
The domainlist.txt is getting an exact duplicate of list2.txt while the results has nothing. No error come up on the screen when I run the script either.
I am running Mac OS X with Macports.
Your script has a number of syntax and stylistic errors. The minimal fix is to change the quotes around the cat:
for IP in `cat $IPLIST`; do
Single quotes produce a literal string; backticks (or the much preferred syntax $(cat $IPLIST)) performs a command substitution, i.e. runs the command and inserts its output. But you should fix your quoting, and preferably read the file line by line instead. We can also get rid of the useless echo.
#!/bin/bash
IPLIST="/Users/mymac/Desktop/list2.txt"
while read IP; do
dig -x "$IP" +short | head -1
done < "$IPLIST" >results.csv
Seems that in your /etc/resolv.conf you configured a nameserver which does not support reverse lookups and that's why the responses are empty.
You can pass the DNS server which you want to use to the dig command. Lets say 8.8.8.8 (Google) for example:
dig #8.8.8.8 -x "$IP" +short | head -1
The commands returns the domain with a . appended. If you want to replace that you can additionally pipe to sed:
... | sed 's/.$//'

tcpdump - ignore unkown host error

I've got a tcpdump command running from a bash script. looks something like this.
tcpdump -nttttAr /path/to/file -F /my/filter/file
The filter file has a combination of ip addresses and host names. i.e.
host 111.111.111.111 or host 112.112.112.112 and not (host abc.com or host def.com or host zyx.com).
And it works great - as long as the host names are all valid. My problem is sometimes these hostnames will not be valid and upon encountering one - tcpdump spits out
tcpdump: Unknown Host
I thought with the -n option it would skip dns lookup - but in anycase I need it to ignore the unknown host and continue along the filter file.
Any ideas?
Thank you in advance.
The -n option prevents conversion of IP addresses into names, but not the other way around. If you supply a hostname as an argument, it has to be looked up to get the IP address since packets only contain the numeric address and not the hostname. However, there ought to be a way to ignore invalid hostnames, but I can't find one. Perhaps you could pre-process your filter file using dig.
dig +short non-existent-domain.com # returns null
dig +short google.com # returns multiple IP addresses
This could probably be better, but it should show you hostnames in your filter file that aren't valid:
grep -Po '(?<=host )[^ )]*' filterfile | grep -v '[0-9]$' | xargs -I % sh -c 'echo -n "% "; echo $(dig +short %)' | grep -v ' [0-9]'
Any hostnames it prints didn't have IP addresses returned by dig.

Resources