In a message dated: 24 Oct 2001 14:33:00 EDT
Kevin D. Clark said:

>Actually, all that does is time ifconfig.  Not very useful...

<grin type=embarrassed>
        Oh yeah
</grin>

>You might try:
>
>  time sh -c '/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk -F: "{print $2}" | cut -f1'

That'll probably work a little better :)

>``Overhead of Perl''?  Ha ha...

Well, yeah, but someone was bound to bring that up, so why not me ;)
-- 

Seeya,
Paul
----

                          God Bless America!

        ...we don't need to be perfect to be the best around,
                and we never stop trying to be better. 
                       Tom Clancy, The Bear and The Dragon



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