El Lunes, 7 de Agosto de 2006 17:26, Marko Vojinovic escribió: [...] > but the problem is that I just need to set the variable, say macaddr, to > the above value, hopefully lowercase, without the [ and ]. Next obvious > thing was: > > # arping -f -I eth0 $ipnumber | grep Unicast > Unicast reply from 10.0.0.3 [00:0C:29:C8:DE:E2] 1.040ms Try this: macaddr=$(arping -f -I eth0 $ipnumber | grep Unicast | cut -d "[" -f1 | cut -d "]" -f2) -- Mauricio Vergara Ereche User #188365 counter.li.org
