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Subject: Re: finding the ip address
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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
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But, for simplicity, if you are on a public host:

$host `hostname`

might do it...

KDK