[LBo] looking for command

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Jason Armstrong wrote:

>> 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
>
> That's some mad pipage.  If you're using sed there's no reason to use grep at all:
>
> ifconfig eth0 | sed -n 's/^.*addr:\(.*\)  B.*$/\1/p'

     There's no need to use sed, either. See my post in this thread.

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