On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 07:17:38PM -0400, Brendan wrote: > /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet add' | awk '{print $2}' |cut -d ' ' -f 12 | > cut -d: -f 2"
or, more simply, /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | awk -F: '/inet/ {print $2}'|sed s/'[[:space:]].*'// but.. that won't tell you the WAN address if you're on a machine behind a NAT router. just your LAN address. -Sean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]