Re: [Lilux-help] How to have my ip address in a shell variable ?

27 Jan 2004

begin  Tuesday 27 January 2004 10:49, Brent Frère quote:
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  I need my eth0 IP address in a shell variable.

 I don't see an easy solution.

 Anybody's idea ?

 Thanks 
var=`/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | fgrep 'inet addr' | sed 's/.*inet
addr:\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/'`

(Tested on a Fedora Core 1. It's Possible that on other distros a
different regexp is needed)

Alain