Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 19:48:54 -0800 From: Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com> To: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> Cc: "" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: identifying my network address Message-ID: <1047268134.3e6c0b263d124@ra.dweebsoft.com>
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Quoting David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>:
> I am running an Xwindow on a windows box. I need a script to
> tell me what my network address is so that I can set my DISPLAY
> varible correctly eg: 192.168.1.2:0.0
>
> Any idea what command would be useful for this purpose?
>
DISPLAY=`who -m | awk '{print $6}' | sed -e 's/[(|)]//g'`:0.0
give that a shot...
I'm sure there's a shorter, cleaner way...but it works.
--daxbert
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