in reply to Re^2: bitwise operators
in thread bitwise operators

No, but that's a big if. This is 2005, and A-, B-, C- subnets are so 1980s. If I have a /23 subnet, I won't be using 255 exclusively.
$ ifconfig | awk 'NR == 2 {print $4}' Mask:255.255.224.0