Output only IP addresses of online machines with nmap

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You can execute:

nmap -n -sn 192.168.1.0/24 -oG - | awk '/Up$/{print $2}'

Quick rundown of options and commands:

  • -n turns off reverse name resolution, since you just want IP addresses. On a local LAN this is probably the slowest step, too, so you get a good speed boost.
  • -sn means “Don’t do a port scan.” It’s the same as the older, deprecated -sP with the mnemonic “ping scan.”
  • -oG - sends “grepable” output to stdout, which gets piped to awk.
  • /Up$/ selects only lines which end with “Up”, representing hosts that are online.
  • {print $2} prints the second whitespace-separated field, which is the IP address.