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Alexander Skwar wrote: |
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> Don't like that - there might be locales, where there's no "inet" |
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> in the line. IMO better: |
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> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep :255\. | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1 |
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broadcasts don't always begin or end with 255, odd yes, but if we're |
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spliting hairs then anything is possible. |
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The only option is to assume that the address line appears on the 2nd |
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line, and it is delimited by a colon, and then strip out the fields past |
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the trailing spaces. |
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/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | head -n 2 | tail -n 1 | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d ' ' |
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-f 1 |
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and.. of course, this only works in linux... and for IPv4 Addresses. |
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