Great! Many thanks,
For anything shorter, I will need a lot more practice first...
Jo
Steve Philp wrote:
>
> Jo wrote:
> >
> > Well, I'm trying to find out my dynamically assigned IP address. I got
> > this far:
> >
> > ifconfig > ifc
> > grep --context=1 eth1 ifc > ifc1
> > grep "inet addr:" ifc1 > ifc2
> >
> > Now I have to get the IP address from that line I isolated into a
> > variable.
> >
> > Axalon wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Yants wrote:
> > >
> > > > how do i write shell scripts..?
> > > > can someone please show me an example...
> > > >
> > >
> > > -=-=- useless bash script v1.0
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > > sleep 10
> > > -=-=-
>
> How 'bout this one-liner:
>
> IFADDR=`/sbin/ifconfig eth1 | grep "inet addr:" | cut -f2 -d: | cut -f1
> -d" "`
>
> IFADDR gets the output of the command pipeline inside the `s. Get the
> output of /sbin/ifconfig for the specific interface, grab just the
> address line, grab from the colon to the next colon, then trim off the
> end of the IP address.
>
> Anyone got anything shorter??
> --
> Steve Philp
> Network Administrator
> Advance Packaging Corporation
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
