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Paul Lussier said:
>
> In a message dated: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:03:01 EDT
> Benjamin Scott said:
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> >ifconfig $IFACE | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if m/inet addr:([0-9.]*)/;'
> >
> > (or something like it) is what I usually use.
>
> Or another variation on the same theme without the overhead of perl:
>
> ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk -F: '{print $2}' | cut -f1 -d' '
>
In the Unix tradition of there being more than one way to do a thing,
this is what I use in my firewall script:
OUTSIDE_IP=`ifconfig eth1 |grep "inet addr" | cut -d':' -f2 |cut -d' ' -f 1`
Which is really not very different from Paul's method... I just
prefer to avoid AWK whenever possible. =8^)
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Derek Martin
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