Marko Vojinovic wrote:
I am writing a bash script to discover a MAC address of a remote host based on
it's IP. Found that arping might be useful (is there a better method?), so I
get
# arping -f -I eth0 $ipnumber
ARPING 10.0.0.3 from 10.0.0.1 eth0
Unicast reply from 10.0.0.3 [00:0C:29:C8:DE:E2] 1.040ms
Sent 1 probes (1 broadcast(s))
Received 1 response(s)
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
but I am over my head in extracting just the number. I guess awk is the tool,
but the man page is not very illustrative and I do not have time/patience to
learn to program in 'awk language' in order to do this thing. And C would
probably be an overkill... :-)
Or this may work...
arping -f -I eth0 10.1.0.51 |\
grep Unicast |\
sed -e 's/.*\[\(..:..:..:..:..:..\)\].*/\1/'
