Getting IP in a script

[Deepak Saxena]

I'm 95% sure there's a glibc call that will do this for you, which
means there's probably a perl equivalent.  Will look it up when I get 
a chance.

~Deepak

On Mar 13 2001, at 12:49, Alan Dayley was caught saying:
> 
> This is good.  I had thought of this, though I would have had to study to
> figure out how to pull the address out of the rest.  Now I will have to
> study to make sure I understand how this script does it.  ;^)
> 
> I was hoping for something more like a function call in perl or grabbing a
> system parameter somewhere that simply "gave" me the address.  Is there
> nothing "cleaner" than grepping ifconfig output?
> 
> Alan
> 
> At 10:34 AM 3/13/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >for each $i which is an interface
> >
> >/sbin/ifconfig eth$i | grep addr: | cut -f2 -d : | cut -f1 -d ' '
> >
> >~Deepak
> >
> >On Mar 13 2001, at 10:25, Alan Dayley was caught saying:
> >> 
> >> I have a linux box with multiple NICs.  It uses DHCP to get it's IP address
> >> for one of the network connections.  I would like a script (perl preferred,
> >> other fine) that will get the IP address assigned to a specific NIC.  I
> >> can't seem to find the answer online anywhere...
> >> 
> >> Alan
> >> 
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Code Monkey, MontaVista Software, Inc. - THE Embedded Linux Experts

call me 'evil' call me 'tide is on your side' anything that you want
anybody knows you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
  - Tori Amos, "Suede"