IP address variable?

[Rick Stevens]

Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.

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