On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:30:22PM -0800, Michael Collette wrote:
> David Banning wrote:
>
> > I am running an Xwindow on a windows box. I need a script to
> > tell me what my network address is so that I can set my DISPLAY
> > varible correctly eg: 192.168.1.2:0.0
> >
> > Any idea what command would be useful for this purpose?
>
> It's ugly. It won't work if you multiple NICs. It may just work for what you
> need just the same.
>
> echo `ifconfig | grep broadcast | cut -d" " -f2`":0.0"
>
> This takes the output of ifconfig and parses it just a wee bit with grep and
> cut. I use something very similar to this in a script that changes my
> network settings for my laptop on the fly.
>
> Let me know if this works for ya.
Nope. ifconfig by itself does not contain the address at all, anywhere;
dc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::220:78ff:fe0e:13d6%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
ether 00:20:78:0e:13:d6
media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
status: active
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 209.188.66.29 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 209.188.66.255
inet6 fe80::248:54ff:fe8c:13e5%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
ether 00:48:54:8c:13:e5
media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
status: active
lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
faith0: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1492
inet 209.188.66.29 --> 206.221.248.4 netmask 0xffffffff
Opened by PID 6716
Thanks anyway -
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