Nice. A few weeks ago, I wrote a shell script similar to yours (yours is more flexible), and also a Perl script which does the same thing just for fun. But all I really wanted was to read variables that are set when the interface is started, so here's a question for the variable-impaired: How can I make system variables (like IPADDR and GATEWAY) available to a login shell? "export" doesn't work that way; surely there's a way to do this? -d Me wrote: :Dan Browning wrote: :> :> In a shell script, how do I assign a varialbe the current dynamic ip address :> for a given interface? What about current default gateway? : : :LOCALIF="ppp0" : :LOCALIP=`ifconfig $LOCALIF | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d \ -f 1` :LOCALMASK=`ifconfig $LOCALIF | grep Mask | cut -d : -f 4` :LOCALNET="$LOCALIP/$LOCALMASK" :echo "External: $LOCALNET : :-- :mozilla :Be Counted ---> http://counter.li.org:80/index.html : : : -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
