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Subject: Re: finding the ip address
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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}'