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in reply to Re^2: grep ip address from dhcpd.leases file
in thread grep ip address from dhcpd.leases file

Provided you have read permissions for dhcp.leases, just use that file as your data source in the above script:

use strict; use warnings; local $/ = 'lease'; my $leaseFile = '/var/lib/dhcp3/dhcpd.leases'; open my $fh, '<', $leaseFile or die $!; while (<$fh>) { my ($ip) = /\s+(\S+)\s+/ or next; my $client = /client-hostname\s+(".+")/ ? $1 : ''; print "$ip,$client\n"; } close $fh;