[olug] Unix Tip: GETTING IPs FROM IFCONFIG

[Matthew G. Marsh]

> GETTING IPs FROM IFCONFIG
>
> You can use ifconfig to lookup
> IP addresses bound to your box.
> If you do not want to search the
> output from ifconfig, use the
> following command to get just
> the IP listing.
>
> ifconfig | awk '/inet/{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print $2}'

For those of you on DHCP using the DHClient from ISC :

`grep -a -m 1 fixed /var/state/dhcp/dhclient.leases | awk '{print $2}' \
	 | cut -d \; -f 1`

Make sure it is all on one line though...

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