[LBo] looking for command

[Billy Pollifrone]

Ray wrote:
> Hello,
> 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?
> Ray
> =


I could do this for ipv4 of my wireless card:

ifconfig wlan0 | grep "inet addr" | sed -e "s/inet addr://" | \
sed -e "s/ Bcast.*//"

Putting it into a shell script should be simple enough

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(o_  Billy Pollifrone
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