Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:12:25 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Matt Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: finding the ip address Message-ID: <413238A9.7060909@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <003c01c48e03$58827fd0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <200408291538.06836.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> <003c01c48e03$58827fd0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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Matt Emmerton wrote:
>>I'm messing with ubermon for superkaramba and I want to know how to get my
>>hosts ip address from the command line (and only the ip address).
>>
>>I know I can grep and sed rc.conf or the output of ifconfig, but I'm
>>
>>
>hoping
>
>
>>there's a command like whoami for the ip address.
>>
>>
>
>There isn't anything that simple, but munging the output of ifconfig is what
>you want. This assumes that your box only has one IP address (other than
>localhost):
>
># ifconfig -a | grep "inet " | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk ' { print $2 } '
>192.168.0.4
>
>--
>Matt Emmerton
>
>
But, for simplicity, if you are on a public host:
$host `hostname`
might do it...
KDK
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