Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:49:44 -0600 From: Philip Kizer <pckizer@nostrum.com> To: Mikel <mikel@ocsinternet.com> Cc: Johnny Dang <johnny.dang@johnnydang.net>, FreeBSD IpFW <FREEBSD-IPFW@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Scripting with IPFW Message-ID: <200103262149.f2QLniB61827@magus.nostrum.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:38:19 EST." <3ABFB6CB.4A876CC2@ocsinternet.com>
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Mikel <mikel@ocsinternet.com> wrote:
>Hey man cool, hope you don't mind I had to try your script out and well I came
>up with this...thanks for sending back the code byte...
>
>#!/bin/sh
>oif=`ifconfig fxp0 |grep inet | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'`
Ouch, it's always a bit painful seeing long pipes when one of the commands
already used can be the only piped command:
try:
oif=`ifconfig fxp0 | awk '/inet/{print$2;exit}'`
Hope that helps, the others can be formulated similarly.
-philip
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Philip Kizer,
USENIX Liaison to Texas A&M University <usenix@tamu.edu>
Texas A&M CIS Operating Systems Group, Unix <pckizer@tamu.edu>
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