Getting IP in a script

[Lucas Vogel]

To find that glibc call, would it help to look in the sources of the
ifconfig program? I'm curious as to the process of finding the appropriate
function call here...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deepak Saxena [mailto:deepak@csociety.purdue.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 1:01 PM
> To: plug-devel@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Getting IP in a script
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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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