On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:59:19PM -0800, paul wrote: > > > Hello All, > > I need to create a variable (or read an existing one) that returns the IP > address for eth0. > I used to do it like this under RH 7.2: > > IPADDR='ifconfig eth0|grep inet|cut -d ":" -f2|cut -d " " -f1' > > The result now under FC3 is: > > # $IPADDR > "inet|cut: Unknown host" > > Can anyone help me out here? I am having a hard time figuring this one out. It's falling over the fact that the grep matches 2 lines (ipv4 and ipv6). grep for "inet addr" and it works fine. Dave
