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ANONIP(1) User Commands ANONIP(1)

anonip - a tool to anonymize IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in existing or via pipe created logfiles.

usage: anonip [-h] [-4 INTEGER] [-6 INTEGER] [-i INTEGER] [-o FILE]

[--input FILE] [-c INTEGER [INTEGER ...]] [-l STRING] [--regex STRING [STRING ...]] [-r STRING] [-p] [-d] [-v]

Anonip is a tool to anonymize IP-addresses in log files.

show this help message and exit
-4 INTEGER, --ipv4mask INTEGER
truncate the last n bits (default: 12)
-6 INTEGER, --ipv6mask INTEGER
truncate the last n bits (default: 84)
increment the IP address by n (default: 0)
file to write to
File or FIFO to read from (default: stdin)
assume IP address is in column n (1-based indexed; default: 1)
log delimiter (default: " ")
regex for detecting IP addresses (use optionally instead of -c)
replacement string in case address parsing fails (Example: 0.0.0.0)
do not mask addresses in private ranges. See IANA Special-Purpose Address Registry.
print debug messages
show program's version number and exit

Example-usage in apache-config: CustomLog "| /usr/bin/anonip [OPTIONS] --output ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log" combined

anonip was written by the Swiss Privacy Foundation, which is now part of the Digitale Gesellschaft e.V.

Full documentation for the anonip tool wit several additional examples is available in /usr/shar/doc/anonip/README.md.gz

September 2022 anonip 1.1.0