David Talkington wrote: > > 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 Ask on the bash list. Subscription instructions are at: http://www.moongroup.com/lists.phtml -- mozilla Be Counted ---> http://counter.li.org:80/index.html -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
