How to fetch IP ranges/entries from SPF records in bash

Recently I needed to fetch IP ranges from SPF records. After looking at different python/ruby/perl modules I came to the conclusion that a fancy module (sometimes with wonky dependencies) was overkill just to parse a simple SPF record. So I threw together a simple bash script that is mainly just fetching the SPF record with dig and grep:

It iterates through the options (it currently recognizes a, mx, ip4, ip6, include, and redirect), and then sorts the output by ipv4, then ipv6.

Download URL: fetch_spf.sh