[LBo] looking for command

[TerryJ]

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>    Missing line:
>
> sep=addr:
>
>> if=eth0  ## adjust to taste
>> temp=$(ifconfig "$if")
>> temp=${temp#*"$sep"}
>> ip=${temp%% *}

How do you get a print of that?

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Regards, TerryJ

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