On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 05:12:35PM +0000, Jon Reades wrote:
>
> Mongers,
Mongchop to you ;-)
>
> I've been trying to assemble a simple bash script that will set up some
> simple VPN tunnels for me when I need to connect to my company's
> Netscreen box.
>
> I've made it most of the way there, but I currently need one script for
> each possible address (e.g. sh /init.d/vpn/192.168.0.1.sh, sh
> /init.d/vpn/192.168.1.1.sh).
>
> A much easier way to do this would be to have the bash script get the
> local IP address by requesting it directly from the client machine.
> Unfortunately, ifconfig is a little hard to parse if you're not human
> and using bash, and I can't find any other functions to return just the
> IP address of, say, en0.
>
/sbin/ifconfig|grep eth0 -2|grep inet|cut -f2 -d:|awk '{print $1}' would
work, non? for eth0 anyway. that extends fairly trivially to something
for each eth stanza...
why not just use perl? :-p
/joel
