Script help

Steven W. Orr steveo at syslang.net
Tue Feb 12 16:50:07 UTC 2008


On Tuesday, Feb 12th 2008 at 11:01 -0000, quoth Tom Brown:

=>
=>> 
=>> $ IP="1234.2345.3456.4578"
=>> $ echo $IP | cut -d. -f3
=>> 3456
=>> 
=>>   by the way, i don't think it solves any of your exact problems, but
=>> 
=>> $ man ipcalc
=>> 
=>>   
=>
=>
=>thanks all - i have 'solved' this in my case (no pun intended) with the
=>following
=>
=>ADDR=`ifconfig | grep inet | head -1 | awk {'print$2'} | cut -d. -f3`

People love to use very long pipelines. How about...

ifconfig eth0 | awk -F. '/inet addr:/ {print $3}'


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