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Subject: Re: extract IP address and feed it into a command
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"DJ Boris" <dj_boris@mail.ru> writes:

> Is there a command or something else that I can use in order to get only the
> IP starting with zzz.zzz up to the first space and how do I feed it into the
> above command?

If you need to do it when the address changes, use one of the hooks in
dhclient-script(8).