Re: [expert] How to see IP address?

[Anton Graham]

Submitted 01-Sep-00 by Sarang Lakare:
> Whats the command to get IP address of u're machine? The only way I know of
> is thru kppp when using modem... I am talking of dynamic IP addresses
> here.. I want something which i can put in a script!

Assuming that you have only one network connection, i.e. a dialup without a
lan, you can do:

/sbin/ifconfig | grep addr | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{print $2'}' | awk -F: '{print 
$2}'

(That should be all one line.)

HTH
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