Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:14:13 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> Subject: Re: finding the ip address Message-ID: <41323915.7000609@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <413238A9.7060909@daleco.biz> References: <200408291538.06836.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> <003c01c48e03$58827fd0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <413238A9.7060909@daleco.biz>
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Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
> 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
>
Doh! You'd still have to deal with some text output,
though. Sorry.
KDK
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