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From: Philip Kizer <pckizer@nostrum.com>
To: Mikel <mikel@ocsinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: Scripting with IPFW 
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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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