Hi,
Me again ;-)
How can I check to see if my computer is currently dialled out or not?
TIA,
Jord
On Friday 08 June 2001 13:43, you wrote:
> Try and grep out the information you need from the command /sbin/ifconfig.
>
> If you're root, all you need is ifconfig, since it's in your path name,
> however any other user, ifconfig is not. But that command will give you a
> lot of info, one of which is the IP address.
>
> Something like the following command should give you the IP address.
>
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | cut -d ":" -f 2 | cut -d " " -f 1
>
> Since it sounds like you're using a dial-up account, you'll substitue eth0
> for ppp0. (I think that's what it's called, been a long time since I've
> dialed in. Just run the ifconfig command when your dialed in to see what
> it looks like.)
>
> But that command will weed out just the IP Address and print it out for
> you. tdh
>
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> | Hi,
> | I'm trying to write a bash script which needs the current IP address that
> | I have been assigned by my ISp at any particular moment. How can I do
> | this?
> |
> | TIA,
> |
> | Jord
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