Below is a list of hostnames that is stored in a text file.

web1.maxi.com
web3.maxi.com
web4.maxi.com
web5.maxi.com
web6.maxi.com
web7.maxi.com
web8.maxi.com
web9.maxi.com
web11.maxi.com

for the sake of displaying it shortly it needs to be parsed and rewritten/displayed as 

web[1,3-9,11].maxi.com

can you guys help me on this, any suggestions will be helpful.

c++ python perl awk
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