IP address variable?

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:59:19PM -0800, paul wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > Hello All,
 > 
 > I need to create a variable (or read an existing one) that returns the IP 
 > address for eth0.
 > I used to do it like this under RH 7.2:
 > 
 > IPADDR='ifconfig eth0|grep inet|cut -d ":" -f2|cut -d " " -f1'
 > 
 > The result now under FC3 is:
 > 
 > # $IPADDR
 > "inet|cut: Unknown host"
 > 
 > Can anyone help me out here? I am having a hard time figuring this one out.

It's falling over the fact that the grep matches 2 lines (ipv4 and ipv6).
grep for "inet addr" and it works fine.

		Dave