IP address variable

[Joseph Vlcek]

By using the -w swith on the "grep inet" one can eliminate
the return of the v6 addr.

e.g.


# ifconfig eth1|grep -w inet |cut -d ":" -f2|cut -d " " -f1
192.168.1.100

# x=$(ifconfig eth1|grep -w inet |cut -d ":" -f2|cut -d " " -f1)
# echo $x
192.168.1.100
#





--- Bill Gradwohl <bill at ycc.com> wrote:

> Matt Morgan wrote:
> 
> >This would help me out too, so I tried this. I get 127.0.0.1 :-). How
> >can I fix that so that command gives me the address I actually want?
> >man hostname doesn't help me. Thanks.
> >
> >  
> >
> That's simply listing the contents of /etc/hosts in a stripped down IP 
> only form. Normally that file doesn't contain the "real" IP address of 
> the box.
> 
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