Given the IP and netmask, how can I calculate the network address using bash?

Question

In a bash script I have an IP address like 192.168.1.15 and a netmask like 255.255.0.0. I now want to calculate the start address of this network, that means using the &

Answer 1

In addition to @Janci answer

IP=10.20.30.240
PREFIX=26
IFS=. read -r i1 i2 i3 i4 <<< $IP
D2B=({0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1})
binIP=${D2B[$i1]}${D2B[$i2]}${D2B[$i3]}${D2B[$i4]}
binIP0=${binIP::$PREFIX}$(printf '0%.0s' $(seq 1 $((32-$PREFIX))))
# binIP1=${binIP::$PREFIX}$(printf '0%.0s' $(seq 1 $((31-$PREFIX))))1
echo $((2#${binIP0::8})).$((2#${binIP0:8:8})).$((2#${binIP0:16:8})).$((2#${binIP0:24:8}))