----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: IP address variable?
Dave Jones wrote: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.
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Thanks Dave and Rick! I'm back in business....
