Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:13:10 -0400 From: Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finding the ip address Message-ID: <200408291613.10585.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> 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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On Sunday 29 August 2004 04:04 pm, 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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Thanks for the info.
I modifies your solution slightly, so I could use it for more interfaces
easily.
ifconfig dc0 | grep inet|awk '{print $2}'
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