[LBo] looking for command

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Ray wrote:
>

> I'm looking for a command that will provide my own IP address
> suitable to pass as a commandline paramater to another program.
> I am aware of ifconfig and arp and if need be I can parse their
> output, (or just do it manually), but if there is an easier way....
> What I want is a command that just returns my internal ip address.
> i.e. command foo -> 192.168.0.104
> is there any such thing?

if=eth0  ## adjust to taste
temp=$(ifconfig "$if")
temp=${temp#*"$sep"}
ip=${temp%% *}

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